Recovery and Genetic Characterization of a West Nile Virus Isolate from China

• Yan Guo ^1, , 
• Hongjiang Wang ^2, , 
• Songtao Xu ^3,4, , 
• Hangyu Zhou ⁵ , 
• Chao Zhou ⁶ , 
• Shihong Fu ^3,4 , 
• Mengli Cheng ¹ , 
• Fan Li ^3,4 , 
• Yongqiang Deng ¹ , 
• Xiaofeng Li ¹ , 
• Huanyu Wang ^{3,4 ,,} , 
• Cheng-Feng Qin ^{1 ,,}

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• 1.

  Department of Virology, State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences(AMMS), Beijing 100071, China

• 2.

  PLA Strategic Support Force Characteristic Medical Center, Beijing 100071, China

• 3.

  Department of Arbovirus, NHC Key Laboratory of Biosafety, National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China

• 4.

  State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China

• 5.

  Suzhou Institute of System Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Suzhou 215000, China

• 6.

  Department of Immunology, Key Laboratory of Immune Microenvironment and Disease, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 211166, China

• Corresponding author: Huanyu Wang, wanghy@ivdc.chinacdc.cn, ORCID: 0000-0001-6245-2027
  Cheng-Feng Qin, qincf@bmi.ac.cn, ORCID: 0000-0002-0632-2807
  
• Yan Guo, Hongjiang Wang, Songtao Xu contributed equally to this work.