Isolation of Usutu Virus in Germany

Overview

Journal Am J Trop Med Hyg

Specialty Tropical Medicine

Date 2011 Sep 8

PMID 21896821

Citations 91

Authors

Hanna Jost

Alexandra Bialonski

Deborah Maus

Vittorio Sambri

Martin Eiden

Martin H Groschup

Stephan Gunther

Norbert Becker

Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit

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Abstract

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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