First report outside Eastern Europe of West Nile virus lineage 2 related to the Volgograd 2007 strain, northeastern Italy, 2014

First report outside Eastern Europe of West Nile virus lineage 2 related to the Volgograd 2007 strain, northeastern Italy, 2014

Abstract Background West Nile virus (WNV) is a Flavivirus transmitted to vertebrate hosts by mosquitoes, maintained in nature through an enzootic bird-mosquito cycle. In Europe the virus became of major public health and veterinary concern in the 1990s. In Italy, WNV re-emerged in 2008, ten years af...

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Main Authors: Silvia Ravagnan, Fabrizio Montarsi, Stefania Cazzin, Elena Porcellato, Francesca Russo, Manlio Palei, Isabella Monne, Giovanni Savini, Stefano Marangon, Luisa Barzon, Gioia Capelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2015-08-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
West Nile virus lineage 2
Volgograd strain
Culex pipiens s.l
Northeastern Italy
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1031-y

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1031-y

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