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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2015-08-01
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Series: | Parasites & Vectors |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-1031-y |