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. 2024 Oct:258:107330.
doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2024.107330. Epub 2024 Jul 21.

Molecular detection of Usutu virus in pools of Culex pipiens mosquitoes in Greece

Anastasia Panagopoulou  1 , Nikolaos Tegos  2 , Stavroula Beleri  2 , Anastasia Mpimpa  2 , Georgios Balatsos  3 , Antonios Michaelakis  3 , Christos Hadjichristodoulou  4 , Eleni Patsoula  5
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Molecular detection of Usutu virus in pools of Culex pipiens mosquitoes in Greece

Anastasia Panagopoulou et al. Acta Trop. 2024 Oct.
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Abstract

Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus originating from Africa, that belongs to the Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) complex. In nature, USUV involves Culex spp. mosquitoes acting as vectors and birds as amplifying hosts. The virus has recently spread in Europe and is considered an emerging human pathogen. This is the first research study performed in Greece revealing the presence and circulation of USUV in Culex spp. mosquito populations. Out of the 1,500 mosquito pools tested with real-time RT-PCR, four (Roesch et al., 2019) were positive for USUV. All four pools were collected from the region of Central Macedonia, Northern Greece.

Keywords: Climate change; Flavivirus; Sequencing analysis; Vector.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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