Isolation of Tahyna virus (California Encephalitis Group) from Anopheles hyrcanus (Diptera, Culicidae), a mosquito species new to, and expanding in, Central Europe

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Hubálek, Zdeněk - Šebesta, Oldřich - Peško, Juraj - Betášová, Lenka - Blažejová, Hana - Venclíková, Kristýna - Rudolf, Ivo
Isolation of Tahyna virus (California Encephalitis Group) from Anopheles hyrcanus (Diptera, Culicidae), a mosquito species new to, and expanding in, Central Europe.
Journal of Medical Entomology. Roč. 51, č. 6 (2014), s. 1264-1267. ISSN 0022-2585. E-ISSN 1938-2928
GRANT EU: European Commission(XE) 261504 - EDENEXT
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68081766
Klíčová slova: Tahyna virus * Orthobunyavirus * mosquito * Anopheles hyrcanus
Kód oboru RIV: EE - Mikrobiologie, virologie
Impakt faktor: 1.953, rok: 2014

Two strains of Tahyna virus (TAHV; Orthobunyavirus, Bunyaviridae) were isolated from 4,568 (92 pools) female Anopheles hyrcanus Pallas (Diptera, Culicidae) mosquitoes collected on the fishponds in South Moravia (Czechland, central Europe) during July–August 2013. This is the first isolation of TAHV from An. hyrcanus in Europe. An. hyrcanus is a species new to Czechland since 2007; its population density was very high in the year 2013 at these ponds. The virus isolation procedure was based on intracerebral inoculation of newborn mice; moreover, the positive pools were also tested by polymerase chain reaction and found to contain TAHV RNA. An. hyrcanus, feeding preferentially on mammals including humans, may be a new potential vector for TAHV in Europe.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0239119