A New Threat Looming over the Mediterranean Basin: Emergence of Viral Diseases Transmitted by Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes
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1 Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, 2 Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Centro Agricoltura Ambiente ‘‘G. Nicoli’’, Crevalcore, Bologna, Italy, 3 Division of Molecular and Cell Biology, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, 4 Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università di Perugia, Italy, 5 Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna, Brescia, Italy, 6 Yale School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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