Putative New West Nile Virus Lineage in Uranotaenia Unguiculata Mosquitoes, Austria, 2013

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2014 Nov 25

PMID 25418009

Citations 35

Authors

Karin Pachler

Karin Lebl

Dominik Berer

Ivo Rudolf

Zdenek Hubalek

Norbert Nowotny

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Abstract

West Nile virus (WNV) is becoming more widespread and markedly effecting public health. We sequenced the complete polyprotein gene of a divergent WNV strain newly detected in a pool of Uranotaenia unguiculata mosquitoes in Austria. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the new strain constitutes a ninth WNV lineage or a sublineage of WNV lineage 4.

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