| flavivirus isolations from mosquitoes collected from western cape york peninsula, australia, 1999-2000. | after the 1st appearance of japanese encephalitis virus (je) on mainland australia in 1998, a study was undertaken to investigate whether je had become established in enzootic transmission cycles on western cape york peninsula. adult mosquitoes were collected during the late wet season from kowanyama and pormpuraaw in april 1999, and pormpuraaw and barr's yard in april 2000. despite processing 269,270 mosquitoes for virus isolation, no isolates of je were obtained. however, other flaviviruses co ... | 2003 | 14710742 |
| identification of new flaviviruses in the kokobera virus complex. | novel flavivirus isolates from mosquitoes collected in northern australia were analysed by partial genomic sequencing, monoclonal antibody-binding assays and polyclonal cross-neutralization tests. two isolates were found to be antigenically distinct from, but related to, viruses of the kokobera virus complex, which currently contains kokobera (kokv) and stratford (strv) viruses. nucleotide sequence comparison of two separate regions of the genome revealed that an isolate from saibai island in th ... | 2005 | 15604438 |
| flaviviruses isolated from mosquitoes collected during the first recorded outbreak of japanese encephalitis virus on cape york peninsula, australia. | in response to an outbreak of japanese encephalitis (je) virus on cape york peninsula, australia, in 1998, mosquitoes were collected using co2 and octenol-baited centers for disease control and prevention light traps. a total of 35,235 adult mosquitoes, comprising 31 species, were processed for virus isolation. no isolates of je virus were recovered from these mosquitoes. however, 18 isolates of kokobera virus, another flavivirus were obtained from culex annulirostris. twelve isolates were from ... | 2001 | 11442206 |
| the molecular epidemiology of kokobera virus. | we describe herein the molecular epidemiology and phylogeny of kokobera (kok) virus, a flavivirus found in australia and papua new guinea. we sequenced a region encompassing the 200 nucleotides of the 3' terminus of the ns5 gene, and the first 300 nucleotides of the 3' untranslated region (utr). the study included 25 isolates of the virus, including an isolate from png, and several recent isolates from the south-west of western australia (wa), where the virus had not previously been detected. we ... | 2000 | 10930658 |