First Record of Mosquito-Borne Kyzylagach Virus in Central Europe.

ABSTRACT: RNA of Kyzylagach virus (KYZV), a Sindbis-like mosquito-borne alphavirus from Western equine encephalitis virus complex, was detected in four pools (out of 221 pools examined), encompassing 10,784 female Culex modestus mosquitoes collected at a fishpond in south Moravia, Czech Republic, with a minimum infection rate of 0.04%. This alphavirus was never detected in Central Europe before.

SUBMITTER: Sikutova S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7765487 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature