Co-circulation of two Usutu virus strains in Northern Italy between 2009 and 2014

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue , 2017, Pages 255-262

  Calzolari, Mattia ^a   Chiapponi, Chiara ^a   Bonilauri, Paolo ^a   Lelli, Davide ^a   Baioni, Laura ^a   Barbieri, Ilaria ^a   Lavazza, Antonio ^a   Pongolini, Stefano ^a   Dottori, Michele ^a   Moreno, Ana ^a  

^a ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELLA LOMBARDIA E DELL EMILIA ROMAGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Culex pipiens; Northern Italy; Phylogeny; Usutu virus

Indexed keywords

ARBOVIRUS; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BIRD; DNA POLYMORPHISM; E GENE; EUROPE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HUNGARY; ITALY; MOSQUITO; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NS5 GENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN; USUTU VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS STRAIN; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CULEX; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INSECT VECTOR; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; CULEX; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FLAVIVIRUS; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTIONS; GENOME, VIRAL; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; PHYLOGENY; RNA, VIRAL;

EID: 85016167094     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2017.03.022     Document Type: Article

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