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Nyando virus: A hitherto undescribed virus isolated fromAnopheles funestus giles collected in Kenya

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An ether-sensitive virus was isolated fromAnopheles funestus Giles caught near Kisumu, Kenya. No antigenic relationship has been found with 33 arboviruses currently recorded as occurring in Africa, nor with 26 arboviruses from other parts of the world, but two related strains have subsequently been isolated from culicine mosquitoes in Ethiopia. It is therefore provisionally classified as a new arbovirus, and named Nyando virus. A high incidence of human immunity has been found in certain areas of Kenya and Uganda.

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  1. Philip S. Corbet

    Present address: Canada Department of Agriculture, Entomology Research Institute, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada

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  1. East African Virus R esearch Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

    M. C. Williams, J. P. Woodall & Philip S. Corbet

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Williams, M.C., Woodall, J.P. & Corbet, P.S. Nyando virus: A hitherto undescribed virus isolated fromAnopheles funestus giles collected in Kenya. Archiv f Virusforschung 15, 422–427 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01241769

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