| discovery and characterisation of a new insect-specific bunyavirus from culex mosquitoes captured in northern australia. | insect-specific viruses belonging to significant arboviral families have recently been discovered. these viruses appear to be maintained within the insect population without the requirement for replication in a vertebrate host. mosquitoes collected from badu island in the torres strait in 2003 were analysed for insect-specific viruses. a novel bunyavirus was isolated in high prevalence from culex spp. the new virus, provisionally called badu virus (baduv), replicated in mosquito cells of both cu ... | 2016 | 26773387 |