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Virus Name: Gamboa

Abbreviation: GAMV

Status
Probable Arbovirus

Select Agent
No

SALS Level
2

SALS Basis
Results of SALS surveys and information from the Catalogue.

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Antigenic Group
Gamboa

Section VII - Natural Host Range (Additional text can be added below table)

Vertebrate (species and organ) and arthropod	No. isolations/No. tested	Country and region


NOTE: 24 viruses isolated from Ad squamipennis collected in Ecuador, 1974-1978; one additional isolate each was obtained from same vector collected in Argentina, 1974-1978 and Panama. All isolates were antigenically related but not necessarily identical to Gamboa virus (2).

Aedeomyia squamipennis	5/13
Culex (Culex) sp.	0/12	Gamboa, Canal Zone, Panama
Culex (Melanoconion) sp.	0/130
Mansonia sp.	0/54
Uranotaenia sp.	0/8
Phlebotomus sp.	0/8
Aedeomyia squimipennis (larvae)	14	Panama (3) (See note, IX.(1))
Sentinel mouse	0/2,219
Didelphis marsupialis	0/14
Philander and Marmosa sp.	0/8
Proechimys semispinosus	0/19
Oryzomys and Sigmodon	0/8
Ameiva ameiva	0/9
Birds:Several species	0/71

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