The complete sequence of a West Nile virus lineage 2 strain detected in a Hyalomma marginatum marginatum tick collected from a song thrush (Turdus philomelos) in Eastern Romania in 2013 revealed closest genetic relationship to strain Volgograd 2007

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Kolodziejek, Jolanta ^a   Marinov, Mihai ^b   Kiss, Botond J ^b   Alexe, Vasile ^b   Nowotny, Norbert ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development   (Romania)

^c SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFECTION; EASTERN EUROPE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; EPIDEMIC; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; ROMANIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE NEUROINVASIVE DISEASE; WEST NILE VIRUS; WEST NILE VIRUS LINEAGE 2; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SONGBIRD; TICK; TICK INFESTATIONS; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENOME; WEST NILE FEVER;

MESSENGER RNA; VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; ROMANIA; SONGBIRDS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICKS; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84923041666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109905     Document Type: Article

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