Isolation of usutu virus in Germany

Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that emerged 2001 in Austria and caused deaths in wild birds. In Germany, 70,378 female mosquitoes were captured in 2009 and 2010 and assayed for USUV. Virus was isolated in cell culture from one pool of Culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes trapped exclu...

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Published in:The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 2011-09, Vol.85 (3), p.551-553
Main Authors: Jöst, Hanna, Bialonski, Alexandra, Maus, Deborah, Sambri, Vittorio, Eiden, Martin, Groschup, Martin H, Günther, Stephan, Becker, Norbert, Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Culex - virology
Culex pipiens pipiens
Female
Flaviviridae - classification
Flaviviridae - isolation & purification
Flavivirus
Germany - epidemiology
Phylogeny
Short Report
Usutu virus
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Summary:Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that emerged 2001 in Austria and caused deaths in wild birds. In Germany, 70,378 female mosquitoes were captured in 2009 and 2010 and assayed for USUV. Virus was isolated in cell culture from one pool of Culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes trapped exclusively in August 2010 in Weinheim, Germany. Subsequent phylogenetic analysis demonstrated a close relationship between the isolated USUV strain from Germany and a USUV strain from Austria, which was detected in a dead blackbird in 2004.
ISSN:0002-9637
1476-1645
DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.2011.11-0248