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West nile virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus are endemic in equids in Eastern Austria
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SYSNO ASEP 0546079 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title West nile virus and tick-borne encephalitis virus are endemic in equids in Eastern Austria Author(s) de Heus, P. (AT)
Kolodziejek, J. (AT)
Hubálek, Zdeněk (UBO-W) RID, SAI, ORCID
Dimmel, K. (AT)
Racher, V. (AT)
Nowotny, N. (AT)
Cavalleri, J.-M. V. (AT)Number of authors 7 Article number 1873 Source Title Viruses. - : MDPI
Roč. 13, č. 9 (2021)Number of pages 16 s. Language eng - English Country CH - Switzerland Keywords Austria ; Epidemiology ; Flavivirus ; Horses ; Seroprevalence ; Tick-borne encephalitis virus ; Usutu virus ; West Nile virus Subject RIV EE - Microbiology, Virology OECD category Virology Method of publishing Open access Institutional support UBO-W - RVO:68081766 UT WOS 000702063000001 EID SCOPUS 85115372136 DOI 10.3390/v13091873 Annotation The emergence of West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) in addition to the autochthonous tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) in Europe causes rising concern for public and animal health. The first equine case of West Nile neuroinvasive disease in Austria was diagnosed in 2016. As a consequence, a cross-sectional seroprevalence study was conducted in 2017, including 348 equids from eastern Austria. Serum samples reactive by ELISA for either flavivirus immuno-globulin G or M were further analyzed with the plaque reduction neutralization test (PRNT-80) to identify the specific etiologic agent. Neutralizing antibody prevalences excluding vaccinated equids were found to be 5.3% for WNV, 15.5% for TBEV, 0% for USUV, and 1.2% for WNV from autoch-thonous origin. Additionally, reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was performed to detect WNV nucleic acid in horse sera and was found to be negative in all cases. Risk factor analysis did not identify any factors significantly associated with seropositivity. Workplace Institute of Vertebrate Biology Contact Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524 Year of Publishing 2022 Electronic address https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/9/1873
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