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Published in final edited form as: Exp Cell Res. 2011 Mar 10;317(5):569–574. doi: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2011.01.009

Table 1.

West Nile virus at a glance.

Family	Flaviviridae (includes YFV, Dengue, TBE, JEV, MVE)
Biology	arboviral CNS pathogen
Host range	diverse, including many mammals and birds
Vector	Culex spp. mosquitoes
Epidemiology	First isolated in Uganda (1938); Re-emergent in USA (1999)
Genome	11 kb (+) single stranded RNA
Structure	enveloped icosahedral nucleocapsid ~50 nm diameter sphere
Tissue tropism	neurotropic
Treatment	no specific agents
Prevention	no human vaccines