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West Nile virus in overwintering mosquitoes, central Europe

SYSNO ASEP	0480447
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	West Nile virus in overwintering mosquitoes, central Europe
Author(s)	Rudolf, Ivo (UBO-W)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Betášová, Lenka (UBO-W)_{SAI, RID} Blažejová, Hana (UBO-W)_SAI Venclíková, Kristýna (UBO-W) Straková, Petra (UBO-W)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Šebesta, Oldřich (UBO-W)_SAI Mendel, Jan (UBO-W)_{RID, SAI, SAI, ORCID} Bakonyi, T. (HU) Schaffner, F. (CH) Nowotny, N. (AT) Hubálek, Zdeněk (UBO-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Number of authors	11
Article number	452
Source Title	Parasites & Vectors. - : BioMed Central - ISSN 1756-3305 Roč. 10, č. 452 (2017)
Number of pages	4 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	West Nile fever ; West Nile virus ; Flavivirus ; Hibernation ; Overwintering ; Culex pipiens ; Anopheles maculipennis ; Culiseta annulata ; Czech Republic
Subject RIV	EE - Microbiology, Virology
OECD category	Parasitology
R&D Projects	GA16-20054S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Institutional support	UBO-W - RVO:68081766
UT WOS	000412091000002
EID SCOPUS	85030790233
DOI	10.1186/s13071-017-2399-7
Annotation	West Nile virus (WNV) is currently the most important mosquito-borne pathogen spreading in Europe. Data on overwintering of WNV in mosquitoes are crucial for understanding WNV circulation in Europe, nonetheless, such data were not available so far. A total of 28,287 hibernating mosquitoes [27,872 Culex pipiens, 73 Anopheles maculipennis (sensu lato), and 342 Culiseta annulata], caught in February or March between 2011 and 2017 in a WNV-endemic region of South Moravia, Czech Republic, were screened for the presence of WNV RNA. No WNV positive pools were found from 2011 to 2016, while lineage 2 WNV RNA was detected in three pools of Culex pipens mosquitoes collected in 2017 at two study sites. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first record of WNV RNA in overwintering mosquitoes in Europe. The data support the hypothesis of WNV persistence in mosquitoes throughout the winter season in Europe.
Workplace	Institute of Vertebrate Biology
Contact	Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524
Year of Publishing	2018

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