Emergence of Usutu virus, an African Mosquito-Borne Flavivirus of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus Group, Central Europe

Emergence of Usutu virus, an African Mosquito-Borne Flavivirus of the Japanese Encephalitis Virus Group, Central Europe

During late summer 2001 in Austria, a series of deaths in several species of birds occurred, similar to the beginning of the West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic in the United States. We necropsied the dead birds and examined them by various methods; pathologic and immunohistologic investigations suggeste...

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Main Authors: Herbert Weissenböck, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Angelika Url, Helga Lussy, Barbara Rebel-Bauder, Norbert Nowotny
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2002-07-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Austria
avian mortality
Flavivirus
pathology
Usutu virus
virology
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/7/02-0094_article

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