Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2020)

Circulation of 2 Barmah Forest Virus Lineages in Military Training Areas, Australia

  • Wenjun Liu,
  • Joanne R. Kizu,
  • David R. Matley,
  • Richard Grant,
  • Fiona J. McCallum,
  • Christopher G. Moller,
  • Tracy L. Carthew,
  • Jun Hang,
  • Ania J. Gubala,
  • John G. Aaskov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2612.191747
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 12
pp. 3061 – 3065

Abstract

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During 2017–2018, Barmah Forest virus was recovered from mosquitoes trapped in military training areas in Australia and from a soldier infected at 1 of these areas. Phylogenies of the nucleotide sequences of the envelope glycoprotein gene E2 and the 3′ untranslated region suggest that 2 lineages are circulating in eastern Australia.

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