Phylogenetic Analysis of the 2020 West Nile Virus (WNV) Outbreak in Andalusia (Spain)

Overview

Journal Viruses

Publisher MDPI

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2021 Jun 2

PMID 34063166

Citations 11

Authors

Carlos S Casimiro-Soriguer

Javier Perez-Florido

Jose L Fernandez-Rueda

Irene Pedrosa-Corral

Vicente Guillot-Sulay

Nicola Lorusso

Luis Javier Martinez-Gonzalez

Jose M Navarro-Mari

Joaquin Dopazo

Sara Sanbonmatsu-Gamez

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Abstract

During recent decades West Nile Virus (WNV) outbreaks have continuously occurred in the Mediterranean area. In August 2020 a new WNV outbreak affected 71 people with meningoencephalitis in Andalusia and six more cases were detected in Extremadura (south-west of Spain), causing a total of eight deaths. The whole genomes of four viruses were obtained and phylogenetically analyzed in the context of recent outbreaks. The Andalusian viral samples belonged to lineage 1 and were relatively similar to those of previous outbreaks which occurred in the Mediterranean region. Here we present a detailed analysis of the outbreak, including an extensive phylogenetic study. As part on this effort, we implemented a local Nextstrain server, which has become a constituent piece of regional epidemiological surveillance, wherein forthcoming genomes of environmental samples or, eventually, future outbreaks, will be included.

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