Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Introductions of West Nile Virus Strains to Mexico

Eleanor Deardorff*, José G. Estrada-Franco*, Aaron C. Brault†, Roberto Navarro-Lopez‡, Arturo Campomanes-Cortes‡, Pedro Paz-Ramirez‡, Mario Solis-Hernandez‡, Wanichaya N. Ramey†, C. Todd Davis*, David W.C. Beasley*, Robert B. Tesh*, Alan D.T. Barrett*, and Scott C. Weaver*

Author affiliations: *University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA; †University of California, Davis, California, USA; ‡Comisión México-Estados Unidos para la Prevención de la Fiebre Aftosa y Otras Enfermedades Exóticas de los Animales, Mexico City, Mexico

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Figure 1

Map showing hypothetical routes of West Nile virus introduction into Mexico. Circles indicate locations of isolates in the Florida-Louisiana-Tabasco 2001–2003 clade (Figure 2). Stars indicate locations of isolates in the California-Arizona-northern Mexico clade.

Figure 1. Map showing hypothetical routes of West Nile virus introduction into Mexico. Circles indicate locations of isolates in the Florida-Louisiana-Tabasco 2001–2003 clade (Figure 2). Stars indicate locations of isolates in the California-Arizona-northern Mexico clade.

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