Expedited retrieval of high-quality Usutu virus genomes via Nanopore sequencing with and without target enrichment

CM Holicki, F Bergmann, F Stoek, A Schulz… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic virus and one of the causes of flavivirus
encephalitis in birds and occasionally in humans. USUV rapidly disperses in a susceptible …

Reconstruction of the molecular evolution of Usutu virus in Germany: Insights into virus emersion and circulation

F Bergmann, CM Holicki, F Michel, S Bock… - PLOS Neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that is widely distributed in southern and
central Europe. The zoonotic virus circulates primarily between birds and mosquitoes, can …

Genomic monitoring to understand the emergence and spread of Usutu virus in the Netherlands, 2016–2018

BB Oude Munnink, E Münger, DF Nieuwenhuijse… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus circulating in Western Europe that causes
die-offs of mainly common blackbirds (Turdus merula). In the Netherlands, USUV was first …

Evolutionary dynamics of Usutu virus: Worldwide dispersal patterns and transmission dynamics in Europe

M Siljic, R Sehovic, M Jankovic… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging mosquito-borne Flavivirus, with birds as the
main zoonotic reservoir. Humans are accidental hosts and mostly develop mild or even …

[HTML][HTML] An amplicon-based sequencing approach for Usutu virus characterization

MHD Ndione, MM Diagne, G Mencattelli, A Diallo… - Virology …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Usutu virus (USUV), an arbovirus from the Flaviviridae family, genus Flavivirus, has recently
gained increasing attention because of its potential for emergence. After his discovery in …

Outbreak and cocirculation of three different Usutu virus strains in Eastern Germany

M Sieg, V Schmidt, U Ziegler, M Keller… - Vector-Borne and …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus accounting for large-scale deaths in
resident bird populations. In this study, we show the introduction of USUV to Eastern …

Reconstruction of the evolutionary history and dispersal of Usutu virus, a neglected emerging arbovirus in Europe and Africa

D Engel, H Jöst, M Wink, J Börstler, S Bosch… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Usutu virus (USUV), one of the most neglected Old World encephalitic flaviviruses, causes
epizootics among wild and captive birds and sporadic infection in humans. The dynamics of …

Different dynamics of Usutu virus infections in Austria and Hungary, 2017–2018

P Weidinger, J Kolodziejek, T Bakonyi… - Transboundary and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Usutu virus (USUV), a mosquito‐borne flavivirus closely related to West Nile virus, emerged
in Austria in 2001, when it caused a considerable mass‐mortality of Eurasian blackbirds …

Identification of Usutu virus Africa 3 lineage in a survey of mosquitoes and birds from urban areas of western Spain

D Bravo-Barriga, M Ferraguti… - Transboundary and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging zoonotic arbovirus that has caused an increasing
number of animal and human cases in Europe in recent years. Understanding the vector …

Validating whole genome nanopore sequencing, using Usutu virus as an example

BBO Munnink, DF Nieuwenhuijse, RS Sikkema… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2020 - jove.com
Whole genome sequencing can be used to characterize and to trace viral outbreaks.
Nanopore-based whole genome sequencing protocols have been described for several …