Genetic Characterization of West Nile Virus Lineage 2, Greece, 2010

Papa, Anna; Bakonyi, Tamás; Xanthopoulou, Kyriaki; Vázquez, Ana; Tenorio, Antonio; Nowotny, Norbert

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Genetic Characterization of West Nile Virus Lineage 2, Greece, 2010

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May 2011

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Emerg Infect Dis. 17(5):920-922.

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We conducted a complete genome analysis of a West Nile virus detected in Culex pipiens mosquitoes during a severe outbreak of human West Nile disease in Greece 2010. The virus showed closest genetic relationship to the lineage 2 strain that emerged in Hungary in 2004; increased virulence may be associated with amino acid substitution H249P.

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