Genetic characterization of West Nile virus lineage 2, Greece, 2010.

ABSTRACT: We conducted a complete genome analysis of a West Nile virus detected in Culex pipiens mosquitoes during a severe outbreak of human West Nile disease in Greece 2010. The virus showed closest genetic relationship to the lineage 2 strain that emerged in Hungary in 2004; increased virulence may be associated with amino acid substitution H249P.

SUBMITTER: Papa A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3321789 | biostudies-literature | 2011 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature