| genetic characterization of bagaza virus (bagv) isolated in india and evidence of anti-bagv antibodies in sera collected from encephalitis patients. | during investigations into the outbreak of encephalitis in 1996 in the kerala state in india, an arbovirus was isolated from a culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquito pool. it was characterized as a japanese encephalitis and west nile virus cross-reactive arbovirus by complement fixation test. a plaque reduction-neutralization test was performed using hyperimmune sera raised against the plaque-purified arbovirus isolate. the sera did not show reactivity with japanese encephalitis virus and were weakly ... | 2009 | 19570951 |