Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2011)

Genetic Characterization of West Nile Virus Lineage 2, Greece, 2010

  • Anna Papa,
  • Tamás Bakonyi,
  • Kyriaki Xanthopoulou,
  • Ana Vázquez,
  • Antonio Tenorio,
  • Norbert Nowotny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1705.101759
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 5
pp. 920 – 922

Abstract

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We conducted a complete genome analysis of a West Nile virus detected in Culex pipiens mosquitoes during a severe outbreak of human West Nile disease in Greece 2010. The virus showed closest genetic relationship to the lineage 2 strain that emerged in Hungary in 2004; increased virulence may be associated with amino acid substitution H249P.

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