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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Weissenböck, Herbert ; Kolodziejek, Jolanta ; Url, Angelika ; Lussy, Helga ; Rebel-Bauder, Barbara ; ... More +
Weissenböck, Herbert ; Kolodziejek, Jolanta ; Url, Angelika ; Lussy, Helga ; Rebel-Bauder, Barbara ; Nowotny, Norbert ; Less -
Description:
During late summer 2001 in Austria, a series of deaths in several species of birds occurred, similar to the beginning of the West Nile virus (WNV) epidemic in the United States. We necropsied the dead birds and examined them by various methods; pathologic and immunohistologic investigations suggested a WNV infection. Subsequently, the virus was isolated, identified, partially sequenced, and subjected to phylogenetic analysis. The isolates exhibited 97% identity to Usutu virus (USUV), a mosquito-borne Flavivirus of the Japanese encephalitis virus group; USUV has never previously been observed outside Africa nor associated with fatal disease in animals or humans. If established in central Europe, this virus may have considerable effects on avian populations; whether USUV has the potential to cause severe human disease is unknown.
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Africa
Animals
Austria
Avian Mortality
Base Sequence
Bird Diseases
Birds
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Culicidae
Disease Outbreaks
Encephalitis Viruses, Japanese
Flavivirus
Insect Vectors
Pathology
Phylogeny
Research
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
Usutu Virus
Virology

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 8(7):652-656.
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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