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Spondweni Virus in Field-Caught Culex quinquefasciatus Mosquitoes, Haiti, 2016

Journal

EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 24, Issue 9, Pages 1765-1767

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CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL
DOI: 10.3201/eid2409.171957

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  1. Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch
  2. Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Section
  3. Proposal Management Information System (PROMIS) [P014517E2]
  4. National Institutes of Health [R01 AI26357-01S1]

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Spondweni virus (SPONV) and Zika virus cause similar diseases in humans. We detected SPONV outside of Africa from a pool of Culex mosquitoes collected in Haiti in 2016. This finding raises questions about the role of SPONV as a human pathogen in Haiti and other Caribbean countries.

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