Close relationship between West Nile virus from Turkey and lineage 1 strain from Central African Republic.

Authors :: Ergunay K
Bakonyi T
Nowotny N
Ozkul A
Source :: Emerging infectious diseases [Emerg Infect Dis] 2015 Feb; Vol. 21 (2), pp. 352-5.
Publication Year :: 2015
Abstract: We sequenced West Nile viruses (WNVs) from Turkey and found close relationships to WNV lineage 1 strain ArB310/67 from the Central African Republic, distinct from other WNVs circulating in the Mediterranean Basin, eastern Europe, and the Middle East. These findings suggest independent introductions of WNV strains from Africa to the Middle East.

Subjects :: Animals
Central African Republic epidemiology
Genome, Viral
Horse Diseases epidemiology
Horses
Molecular Sequence Data
Phylogeny
RNA, Viral
Sequence Analysis, DNA
Turkey epidemiology
West Nile virus classification
Horse Diseases virology
West Nile Fever veterinary
West Nile virus genetics

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