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SUBMITTER: Aguero M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3381565 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Agüero Montserrat M Fernández-Pinero Jovita J Buitrago Dolores D Sánchez Azucena A Elizalde Maia M San Miguel Elena E Villalba Ruben R Llorente Francisco F Jiménez-Clavero Miguel Angel MA
Emerging infectious diseases 20110801 8
In September 2010, an unusually high number of wild birds (partridges and pheasants) died in Cádiz in southwestern Spain. Reverse transcription PCR and virus isolation detected flavivirus infections. Complete nucleotide sequence analysis identified Bagaza virus, a flavivirus with a known distribution that includes sub-Saharan Africa and India, as the causative agent. ...[more]