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

Authors :: Norbert Nowotny
Tamás Bakonyi
Kyriaki Xanthopoulou
Anna Papa
Antonio Tenorio
Ana Vázquez
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 17, Iss 5, Pp 920-922 (2011), Emerging Infectious Diseases
Publication Year :: 2011
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011.
Abstract: 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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