Isolation of yellow fever virus (YFV) from naturally infectied Haemagogus (Conopostegus) leucocelaenus (diptera, cukicudae) in São Paulo State, Brazil, 2009

After detecting the death of Howlers monkeys (genus Alouatta) and isolation of yellow fever virus (YFV) in Buri county, São Paulo, Brazil, an entomological research study in the field was started. A YFV strain was isolated from newborn Swiss mice and cultured cells of Aedes albopictus - C6/36, from...

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Main Authors: Renato Pereira de Souza, Selma Petrella, Terezinha Lisieux Moraes Coimbra, Adriana Yurika Maeda, Iray Maria Rocco, Ivani Bisordi, Vivian Regina Silveira, Luiz Eloy Pereira, Akemi Suzuki, Sarai Joaquim dos Santos Silva, Fernanda Gisele Silva, Felipe Scassi Salvador, Rosa Maria Tubaki, Regiane Tironi Menezes, Mariza Pereira, Eduardo Sterlino Bergo, Roberto Colozza Hoffmann, Roberta Maria Fernandes Spinola, Cílea Hatsumi Tengan, Melissa Mascheratti Siciliano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2011-06-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652011000300004&lng=en&tlng=en