Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dec 2014)

Putative New West Nile Virus Lineage in Uranotaenia unguiculata Mosquitoes, Austria, 2013

  • Karin Pachler,
  • Karin Lebl,
  • Dominik Berer,
  • Ivo Rudolf,
  • Zdenek Hubalek,
  • Norbert Nowotny

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2012.140921
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 12
pp. 2119 – 2122

Abstract

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West Nile virus (WNV) is becoming more widespread and markedly effecting public health. We sequenced the complete polyprotein gene of a divergent WNV strain newly detected in a pool of Uranotaenia unguiculata mosquitoes in Austria. Phylogenetic analyses suggest that the new strain constitutes a ninth WNV lineage or a sublineage of WNV lineage 4.

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