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These outbreaks were associated with VEEV strains with an altered infection phenotype for the epizootic mosquito vector, <jats:italic>Aedes</jats:italic> (<jats:italic>Ochlerotatus</jats:italic>) <jats:italic>taeniorhynchus.</jats:italic> To determine the infectivity for the enzootic vector, <jats:italic>Culex taeniopus,</jats:italic> mosquitoes from a recently established colony were orally exposed to VEEV strains from the outbreak. The equine-virulent strains exhibited high infectivity and transmission potential comparable to a traditional enzootic subtype IE VEEV strain. Thus, subtype IE VEEV strains in Chiapas are able to efficiently infect enzootic and epizootic vectors and cause morbidity and mortality in horses.</jats:p>","journal":"The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene","year":2010,"id":18685,"datarank":1.1653087809027647,"base_score":3.5263605246161616,"endowment":3.5263605246161616,"self_citation_contribution":0.5289540786924243,"citation_network_contribution":0.6363547022103404,"self_endowment_contribution":0.5289540786924243,"citer_contribution":0.6363547022103404,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":33,"citer_count":23,"citers_with_citation_signal":20,"citers_with_endowment":20,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":105319,"name":"Scott C. 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