Gouléako Virus Isolated from West African Mosquitoes Constitutes a Proposed Novel Genus in the Family Bunyaviridae
Gouléako Virus Isolated from West African Mosquitoes Constitutes a Proposed Novel Genus in the Family Bunyaviridae
M. Marklewitz,S. Handrick,8 Authors,S. Junglen
2011 · DOI: 10.1128/JVI.00230-11
Journal of Virology · 95 Citations
TLDR
A novel prototypic bunyavirus is described, tentatively named Gouléako virus, isolated from various mosquito species trapped in Côte d'Ivoire and shown to have shorter genome termini than phleboviruses and no evidence of encoded NSs and NSm proteins.