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Virus Name: California encephalitis

Abbreviation: CEV

Status
Arbovirus

Select Agent
No

SALS Level
2

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

Other Information

Antigenic Group
California

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


^* Hundreds of thousands 1943-1964
Neutralizing and HI antibodies reported from man and lower vertebrates of USA, Canada and Argentina but since extensive overlapping occurs with antibody to other group members, they cannot be attributed to CE virus.

Culex tarsalis	1/ ^*	California, USA (1)
Aedes melanimon (dorsalis)	2/ ^*
Aedes vexans	2/5,064	New Mexico, USA (12)
Aedes nigromaculis	2	Texas, USA (12)
Psorophora signipennis	3
Culiseta inornata	2/750	New Mexico, USA (12)
Aedes dorsalis	9	Utah, USA (12)
Aedes melanimon	>1	Owen Valley, CA, USA(27)
Culiseta inornata	1	Manitoba, Canada(29)

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