Genetic Variability of West Nile Virus in U.S. Blood Donors from the 2012 Epidemic Season

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Grinev, Andriyan ^a   Chancey, Caren ^a   Volkova, Evgeniya ^a   Añez, Germán ^a   Heisey, Daniel A R ^a   Winkelman, Valerie ^b   Foster, Gregory A ^c   Williamson, Phillip ^b   Stramer, Susan L ^c   Rios, Maria ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CREATIVE TESTING SOLUTIONS   (United States)

^c AMERICAN RED CROSS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIRUS ISOLATION; WEST NILE VIRUS; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD DONORS; EPIDEMICS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UNITED STATES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84971595289     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0004717     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. van der Meulen KM, Pensaert MB, Nauwynck HJ, West Nile virus in the vertebrate world. Arch Virol. 2005; 150: 637–657. 15662484
2. Murray KO, Mertens E, Despres P, West Nile virus and its emergence in the United States of America. Vet Res. 2010; 41: 67–81. 21188801
3. Pealer LN, Marfin AA, Petersen LR, Lanciotti RS, Page PL, Stramer SL, et al. Transmission of West Nile virus through blood transfusion in the United States in 2002. N Engl J Med. 2003; 349: 1236–1245. 14500806
4. Iwamoto M, Jernigan DB, Guasch A, Trepka MJ, Blackmore CG, Hellinger WC, et al. Transmission of West Nile virus from an organ donor to four transplant recipients. N Engl J Med. 2003; 348: 2196–2203. 12773646
5. Dodd RY, Foster GA, Stramer SL, Keeping Blood Transfusion Safe From West Nile Virus: American Red Cross Experience, 2003 to 2012. Transfus Med Rev. 2015; 29:153–161. doi: 10.1016/j.tmrv.2015.03.00125841631
6. Mostashari F, Bunning ML, Kitsutani PT, Singer DA, Nash D, Cooper MJ, et al. Epidemic West Nile encephalitis, New York, 1999: results of a household-based seroepidemiological survey. Lancet. 2001; 358: 261–264. 11498211
7. Fratkin JD, Leis AA, Stokic DS, Slavinski SA, Geiss RW, Spinal cord neuropathology in human West Nile virus infection. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2004; 128: 533–537. 15086282
8. Busch MP, Wright DJ, Custer B, Tobler LH, Stramer SL, Kleinman SH, et al. West Nile virus infections projected from blood donor screening data, United States, 2003. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006; 12: 395–402. 16704775
9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. West Nile Virus Statistics & Maps, http://www.cdc.gov/westnile/statsmaps/index.html
10. Hayes EB, Gubler DJ, West Nile virus: epidemiology and clinical features of an emerging epidemic in the United States. Annu Rev Med. 2006; 57: 181–194. 16409144
11. May FJ, Davis CT, Tesh RB, Barrett AD, Phylogeography of West Nile virus: from the cradle of evolution in Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas. J Virol. 2011; 85: 2964–2974. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01963-1021159871
12. Chancey C, Grinev A, Volkova E, Rios M, The Global Ecology and Epidemiology of West Nile Virus. BMRI. 2015; Article ID 376230, doi: 10.1155/2015/376230
13. Carson PJ, Borchardt SM, Custer B, Prince HE, Dunn-Williams J, Winkelman V, et al. Neuroinvasive disease and West Nile virus infection, North Dakota, USA, 1999–2008. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012;18:684–696. doi: 10.3201/eid1804.11131322469465
14. Centers for Disease Control and PreventionWest Nile Virus and Other Arboviral Diseases—United States, 2012. MMWR2013; 62:513–517. 23803959
15. Lanciotti RS, Roehrig JT, Deubel V, Smith J, Parker M, Steele K, et al. Origin of the West Nile virus responsible for an outbreak of encephalitis in the northeastern United States. Science. 1999; 286: 2333–2337. 10600742
16. Davis CT, Ebel GD, Lanciotti RS, Brault AC, Guzman H, Siirin M, et al. Phylogenetic analysis of North American West Nile virus isolates, 2001–2004: evidence for the emergence of a dominant genotype. Virology. 2005; 342: 252–265. 16137736
17. Snapinn KW, Holmes EC, Young DS, Bernard KA, Kramer LD, Ebel GD, Declining growth rate of West Nile virus in North America. J Virol. 2007; 81: 2531–2534. 17182695
18. Moudy RM, Meola MA, Morin LL, Ebel GD, Kramer LD, A newly emergent genotype of West Nile virus is transmitted earlier and more efficiently by Culex mosquitoes. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2007; 77: 365–370. 17690414
19. Grinev A, Daniel S, Stramer S, Rossmann S, Caglioti S, Rios M, Genetic variability of West Nile virus in US blood donors, 2002–2005. Emerg Infect Dis. 2008; 14: 436–444. doi: 10.3201/eid1403.07046318325259
20. McMullen AR, May FJ, Li L, Guzman H, Bueno R, JrDennett JA, et al. Evolution of new genotype of West Nile Virus in North America. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011; 17: 785–793. doi: 10.3201/eid1705.10170721529385
21. Añez G, Grinev A, Chancey C, Ball C, Akolkar N, Land KJ, et al. Evolutionary Dynamics of West Nile Virus in the United States, 1999–2011: Phylogeny, Selection Pressure and Evolutionary Time-Scale Analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2013; 7(5): e2245. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.000224523738027
22. Duggal NK, D'Anton M, Xiang J, Seiferth R, Day J, Nasci R, et al. Sequence analyses of 2012 West Nile virus isolates from Texas fail to associate viral genetic factors with outbreak magnitude. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013; 89:205–210. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.13-014023817333
23. Mann BR, McMullen AR, Swetnam DM, Salvato V, Reyna M, Guzman H, et al. Continued evolution of West Nile virus, Houston, Texas, USA, 2002–2012. Emerg Infect Dis. 2013; 19:1418–1427. doi: 10.3201/eid1909.13037723965756
24. Tamura K., Stecher G., Peterson D., Filipski A., Kumar S, MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis version 6.0. Mol Biol Evol. 2013; 30: 2725–2729. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mst19724132122
25. Drummond AJ, Suchard MA, Xie D, Rambaut A, Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7. Mol Biol Evol. 2012; 29: 1969–1973. doi: 10.1093/molbev/mss07522367748
26. Ayres D. L., Darling A, Zwickl DJ, Beerli P, Holder MT, Lewis PO, et al. BEAGLE: An Application Programming Interface and High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics. Syst Biol. 2012; 61: 170–173. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syr10021963610
27. Rambaut A. Computer programs and documentation distributed by the author. 2015; http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/tracer; Tracer v1.6. and http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree; FigTree 1.4.2.
28. Lanciotti RS, Ebel GD, Deubel V, Kerst AJ, Murri S, Meyer R, et al. Complete genome sequences and phylogenetic analysis of West Nile virus strains isolated from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Virology. 2002; 298: 96–105. 12093177
29. Beasley DW, Davis CT, Guzman H, Vanlandingham DL, Travassos da Rosa AP, Parsons RE, et al. Limited evolution of West Nile virus has occurred during its southwesterly spread in the United States. Virology2003; 309: 190–195. 12758166
30. Davis CT, Beasley DW, Guzman H, Raj R, D'Anton M, Novak RJ, et al. Genetic variation among temporally and geographically distinct West Nile virus isolates, United States, 2001, 2002. Emerg Infect Dis. 2003; 9:1423–1429. 14718086
31. Ebel GD, Carricaburu J, Young D, Bernard KA, Kramer LD, Genetic and phenotypic variation of West Nile virus in New York, 2000–2003. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2004; 71: 493–500. 15516648
32. Herring BL, Bernardin F, Caglioti S, Stramer S, Tobler L, Andrews W, et al. Phylogenetic analysis of WNV in North American blood donors during the 2003–2004 epidemic seasons. Virology. 2007; 363: 220–228. 17321561
33. Bertolotti L, Kitron U, Goldberg TL, Diversity and evolution of West Nile virus in Illinois and the United States, 2002–2005. Virology. 2007; 360: 143–149. 17113619
34. Bertolotti L, Kitron UD, Walker ED, Ruiz MO, Brawn JD, Loss SR, et al. Fine-scale genetic variation and evolution of West Nile Virus in a transmission "hot spot" in suburban Chicago, USA. Virology. 2008; 374: 381–389.
35. Amore G, Bertolotti L, Hamer GL, Kitron UD, Walker ED, Ruiz MO, et al. Multi-year evolutionary dynamics of West Nile virus in suburban Chicago, USA, 2005–2007. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2010; 365: 1871–1878. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2010.005420478882
36. Gray RR, Veras NM, Santos LA, Salemi M, Evolutionary characterization of the West Nile Virus complete genome. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2010; 56: 195–200.
37. McMullen AR, May FJ, Li L, Guzman H, Bueno R, JrDennett JA, et al. Evolution of new genotype of West Nile Virus in North America. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011; 17: 785–793.
38. Armstrong PM, Vossbrinck CR, Andreadis TG, Anderson JF, Pesko KN, Newman RM, et al. Molecular evolution of West Nile virus in a northern temperate region: Connecticut, USA 1999–2008. Virology. 2011; 417: 203–210.
39. Plante JA, Burkhalter KL, Mann BR, Godsey MS, JrMutebi JP, Beasley DW, Co-circulation of West Nile virus variants, Arizona, USA, 2010. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014; 20:272–275. doi: 10.3201/eid2002.13100824447818
40. DeGroote JP, Sugumaran R, Ecker M, Landscape, demographic and climatic associations with human West Nile virus occurrence regionally in 2012 in the United States of America. Geospat Health. 2014; 9:153–168. 25545933
41. Wimberly MC, Lamsal A, Giacomo P, Chuang TW, Regional variation of climatic influences on West Nile virus outbreaks in the United States. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2014;91:677–684. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.14-023925092814
42. Pesko KN, Ebel GD, West Nile virus population genetics and evolution. Infect Genet Evol. 2012; 12:181–190. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.11.01422226703
43. Duggal NK, Reisen WK, Fang Y, Newman RM, Yang X, Ebel GD, et al. Genotype-specific variation in West Nile virus dispersal in California. Virology. 2015; 485:79–85.
44. Domingo E, Escarmís C, Sevilla N, Baranowski E, Population dynamics in the evolution of RNA viruses. Adv Exp Med Biol. 1998; 440:721–727. 9782350
45. Phillips JE, Stallknecht DE, Perkins TA, McClure NS, Mead DG, Evolutionary dynamics of West Nile virus in Georgia, 2001–2011. Virus Genes. 2014; 49:132–136. doi: 10.1007/s11262-014-1061-024691819
46. Tamura K., Nei M., Kumar S, Prospects for inferring very large phylogenies by using the neighbor-joining method. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2004; 101:11030–11035. 15258291