culex flavivirus isolates from mosquitoes in guatemala. | a new strain of culex flavivirus (family flaviviridae, genus flavivirus, cxfv), an insect virus first described in japan, was isolated from adult culex quinquefasciatus say (diptera: culicidae) collected in 2006 from izabal department on the caribbean coast of guatemala. mosquito pools were assayed for flavivirus rna by using flavivirus group-specific primers that amplified a 720-bp region of the nonstructural (ns) 5 gene by standard reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. from 210 pool ... | 2008 | 19058647 |