Zika virus outbreak in the Americas: Is Aedes albopictus an overlooked culprit?
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overlooked culprit? Azeem Mehmood Butt*, Izza Nasrullah, Raheel Qamar, Yigang Tong Genomics Laboratory, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad 45550, Pakistan Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad 45320, Pakistan State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing 100071, People’s Republic of China #Co-first author *Corresponding author: Azeem Mehmood Butt, PhD Email: [email protected] Tel: +92-3315074282
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تاریخ انتشار 2016