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Volume 8, Number 12—December 2002
Dispatch

Isolation and Genetic Characterization of Rift Valley fever virus from Aedes vexans arabiensis, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Barry R. Miller*Comments to Author , Marvin S. Godsey*, Mary Crabtree*, Harry M. Savage*, Yagob Al-Mazrao†, Mohammed H. Al-Jeffri†, Abdel-Mohsin M. Abdoon†, Suleiman M. Al-Seghayer†, Ali M. Al-Shahrani†, and Thomas G. Ksiazek*
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia;

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Maximum likelihood phylogram of African Rift Valley fever virus strains (see Table 2) and mosquito isolate from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia based on a 655-bp DNA fragment from the M segment (4).

Figure. Maximum likelihood phylogram of African Rift Valley fever virus strains (see Table 2) and mosquito isolate from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia based on a 655-bp DNA fragment from the M segment (4).

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