Putative Lineage of Novel African Usutu Virus, Central Europe.

[en] We characterized the complete genome of a putative novel Usutu virus (USUV) strain (Usutu-BONN) detected in a dead blackbird from Germany. Genomic analysis revealed several unique amino acid substitutions among the polyprotein gene. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that Usutu-BONN constitutes a putative novel African USUV lineage, which was probably recently introduced to central Europe.

Disciplines :

Microbiology

Author, co-author :

Cadar, Daniel

Bosch, Stefan

Jost, Hanna

Borstler, Jessica

Garigliany, Mutien-Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège

Becker, Norbert

Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas

Language :

English

Title :

Putative Lineage of Novel African Usutu Virus, Central Europe.

Publication date :

2015

Journal title :

Emerging Infectious Diseases

ISSN :

1080-6040

eISSN :

1080-6059

Publisher :

U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases, United States - Georgia

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

1647-50

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since 26 April 2016

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