Co-circulation of Usutu virus and West Nile virus in a reed bed ecosystem

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Rudolf, Ivo ^a   Bakonyi, Tamás ^b,c   Šebesta, Oldřich ^a   Mendel, Jan ^a   Peško, Juraj ^a   Betášová, Lenka ^a   Blažejová, Hana ^a   Venclíková, Kristýna ^d   Straková, Petra ^d   Nowotny, Norbert ^c,e   Hubálek, Zdenek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Arbovirus; Culex modestus; Flavivirus; Mosquitoes; Surveillance; Usutu virus; West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULEX MODESTUS; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS; MOSQUITO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POND; REED BED ECOSYSTEM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES HABITAT; USUTU VIRUS; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER BIRD; WEST NILE VIRUS; WETLAND; ANIMAL; ARBOVIRUS; BIRD; CULEX; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ANIMALS; ARBOVIRUSES; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRDS; CULEX; CULICIDAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EUROPE; FEMALE; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84943771110     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-015-1139-0     Document Type: Article

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