First Record of Mosquito-Borne Kyzylagach Virus in Central Europe

Abstract

RNA of Kyzylagach virus (KYZV), a Sindbis-like mosquito-borne alphavirus from Western equine encephalitis virus complex, was detected in four pools (out of 221 pools examined), encompassing 10,784 female Culex modestus mosquitoes collected at a fishpond in south Moravia, Czech Republic, with a minimum infection rate of 0.04%. This alphavirus was never detected in Central Europe before.

Keywords

• alphaviruses
• Sindbis
• mosquito
• <i>Culex modestus</i>
• arboviruses
• reedbeds