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Usutu virus, Belgium, 2016
Garigliany, Mutien-Marie; Linden, Annick; Gilliaux, Gautier et al.
2017In Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases, 48 (1), p. 116-119
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Keywords :
Usutu; Flaviviridae; Blackbirds
Abstract :
[en] During late summer 2016, in a northwest European region extending over Belgium, the Netherlands and the eastern border of the German state of North Rhine Westphalia, an outbreak of wild bird deaths occurred similar to those reported on the continent since 1996. Dead birds were necropsied and examined by complementary methods. Pathologic and immunohistological investigations strongly suggested an infection by Usutu virus. Subsequently, genomic segments of the said virus were detected, the virus was isolated and its complete genome was sequenced. The strain, designated Usutu-LIEGE, is a close phylogenetic relative of those isolated in Germany which form a distinct group within the USUV phylogeny, the so-called Europe_3 lineage. Should this outbreak recapitulate the characteristics of those in southwest Germany in 2011 and in/around Vienna (Austria) in 2001, it is expected that specific avian populations in the affected area will face a significant reduction in size for a few years.
Disciplines :
Microbiology
Immunology & infectious disease
Author, co-author :
Garigliany, Mutien-Marie  ;  Université de Liège > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP) > Pathologie générale et autopsies
Linden, Annick  ;  Université de Liège > Département des maladies infectieuses et parasitaires (DMI) > Santé et pathologies de la faune sauvage
Gilliaux, Gautier ;  Université de Liège > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP) > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP)
Levy, Etienne ;  Université de Liège > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP) > Pathologie spéciale et autopsies
Sarlet, Michaël ;  Université de Liège > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP) > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP)
Franssen, Mathieu ;  Université de Liège > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP) > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP)
Benzarti, Emna ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Doct. sc. vété. (paysage)
Derouaux, Antoine
Francis, Frédéric  ;  Université de Liège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Entomologie fonctionnelle et évolutive
Desmecht, Daniel ;  Université de Liège > Département de morphologie et pathologie (DMP) > Pathologie spéciale et autopsies
Language :
English
Title :
Usutu virus, Belgium, 2016
Publication date :
January 2017
Journal title :
Infection, Genetics and Evolution: Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics of Infectious Diseases
ISSN :
1567-1348
eISSN :
1567-7257
Publisher :
Elsevier
Volume :
48
Issue :
1
Pages :
116-119
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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