Continuous and Dynamic Circulation of West Nile Virus in Mosquito Populations in Bucharest Area, Romania, 2017-2023.

ABSTRACT: West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne pathogen with a worldwide distribution. Climate change and human activities have driven the expansion of WNV into new territories in Europe during the last two decades. Romania is endemic for WNV circulation since at least 1996 when the presence of lineage 1 was documented during an unprecedented outbreak. Lineage 2 was first identified in this country during a second significant human outbreak in 2010. Its continuous circulation is marked by clade replacement, and even co-circulation of different strains of the same clade was observed until 2016. The present study aims to fill the information gap regarding the WNV strains that were circulating in Romania between 2017 and 2023, providing chiefly viral sequences obtained from mosquito samples collec

SUBMITTER: Dinu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11510486 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature