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Co-circulation of Usutu virus and West Nile virus in a reed bed ecosystem

Overview of attention for article published in Parasites & Vectors, October 2015
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Title
Co-circulation of Usutu virus and West Nile virus in a reed bed ecosystem
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Parasites & Vectors, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13071-015-1139-0
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Ivo Rudolf, Tamás Bakonyi, Oldřich Šebesta, Jan Mendel, Juraj Peško, Lenka Betášová, Hana Blažejová, Kristýna Venclíková, Petra Straková, Norbert Nowotny, Zdenek Hubálek

Abstract

Mosquito-borne flaviviruses are a major public health threat in many countries worldwide. In Central Europe, West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV), both belonging to the Japanese encephalitis virus group (Flaviviridae) have emerged in the last decennium. Surveillance of mosquito vectors for arboviruses is a sensitive tool to evaluate virus circulation and consequently to estimate the public health risk. Mosquitoes (Culicidae) were collected at South-Moravian (Czech Republic) fishponds between 2010 and 2014. A total of 61,770 female Culex modestus Ficalbi mosquitoes, pooled to 1,243 samples, were examined for flaviviruses by RT-PCR. One pool proved positive for USUV RNA. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that this Czech USUV strain is closely related to Austrian and other Central European strains of the virus. In addition, nine strains of WNV lineage 2 were detected in Cx. modestus collected in the same reed bed ecosystem. This is the first detection of USUV in Cx. modestus. The results indicate that USUV and WNV may co-circulate in a sylvatic cycle in the same habitat, characterised by the presence of water birds and Cx. modestus mosquitoes, serving as hosts and vectors, respectively, for both viruses.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 2%
Unknown 64 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 32%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 8%
Student > Postgraduate 5 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 8%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 13 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 22%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 8 12%
Immunology and Microbiology 8 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 6 9%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 3%
Other 10 15%
Unknown 17 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 October 2015.
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#14,698,802
of 22,830,751 outputs
Outputs from Parasites & Vectors
#3,052
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#152,088
of 279,097 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Parasites & Vectors
#75
of 156 outputs
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