Molecular characterization of South African lineage II West Nile virus isolates and development of a diagnostic assay
West Nile virus (WNV) belongs to the Flaviviridae family, a virus family of which many members are known as human pathogens. WNV has a worldwide distribution and strains that cluster in lineage II is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. The complete nucleotide sequence of four lineage II West Nile virus s...
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University of Pretoria
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25469 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-06122008-130924/ |