Abstract
West Nile Virus Lineage 2 Strain in Greece, 2012
Highlights
3. Leblond A, Pradier S, Pittel PH, Fortier G, Boireau P, Chadoeuf J, et al An epidemiological survey of equine anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) in southern France [in French]
The virus was closely related to the goshawk-Hungary-2004 strain circulating in Hungary, Austria, and Italy [5,6,7], severe epidemics occurred only in Greece; 273 cases of West Nile neuroinvasive disease (WNND) in humans were reported during the 2 seasons [2,4]
Serum from the sentinel chickens was tested for West Nile virus (WNV)-specific antibodies by using the ID-Screen West Nile Competition ELISA kit (IDvet, Montpellier, France)
Summary
3. Leblond A, Pradier S, Pittel PH, Fortier G, Boireau P, Chadoeuf J, et al An epidemiological survey of equine anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum) in southern France [in French]. West Nile Virus Lineage 2 Strain in Greece, 2012 Before 2010, WNV epidemics in Europe were caused mainly by lineage 1 strains. In 2010, a major WNV epidemic in Central Macedonia, Greece, was caused by a lineage 2 strain (Nea Santa-Greece-2010) [2].
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