Short Report: Isolation of Usutu Virus in Germany

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作者
Joest, Hanna [2 ]
Bialonski, Alexandra [1 ]
Maus, Deborah [1 ]
Sambri, Vittorio [3 ]
Eiden, Martin [4 ]
Groschup, Martin H. [4 ]
Guenther, Stephan [1 ]
Becker, Norbert [2 ,5 ]
Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas [1 ]
机构
[1] Bernhard Nocht Inst Trop Med, Dept Virol, D-20359 Hamburg, Germany
[2] German Mosquito Control Assoc, D-67165 Waldsee, Germany
[3] Azienda Osped Univ Bologna, Microbiol Unit, Reg Reference Ctr Microbiol Emergencies, Policlin S Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy
[4] Friedrich Loeffler Inst, Fed Res Inst Anim Hlth, Inst Novel & Emerging Infect Dis, D-17493 Greifswald, Insel Riems, Germany
[5] Univ Heidelberg, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
关键词
WEST-NILE-VIRUS; SINDBIS-VIRUS; EMERGENCE; CULICIDAE; DIPTERA; BIRDS; UK;
D O I
10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0248
中图分类号
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要
Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that emerged 2001 in Austria and caused deaths in wild birds. In Germany, 70,378 female mosquitoes were captured in 2009 and 2010 and assayed for USUV. Virus was isolated in cell culture from one pool of Culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes trapped exclusively in August 2010 in Weinheim, Germany. Subsequent phylogenetic analysis demonstrated a close relationship between the isolated USUV strain from Germany and a USUV strain from Austria, which was detected in a dead blackbird in 2004.
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