The challenge of West Nile virus in Europe: knowledge gaps and research priorities

A Rizzoli, MA Jiménez-Clavero, L Barzon… - …, 2015 - eurosurveillance.org
West Nile virus (WNV) is continuously spreading across Europe, and other continents, ie
North and South America and many other regions of the world. Despite the overall sporadic …

The knowns and unknowns of West Nile virus in Europe: what did we learn from the 2018 outbreak?

JV Camp, N Nowotny - Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Introduction: West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne human and animal
pathogen with nearly worldwide distribution. In Europe, the virus is endemic with seasonal …

Arboviruses pathogenic for domestic and wild animals

Z Hubálek, I Rudolf, N Nowotny - Advances in virus research, 2014 - Elsevier
The objective of this chapter is to provide an updated and concise systematic review on
taxonomy, history, arthropod vectors, vertebrate hosts, animal disease, and geographic …

Assessment of listing and categorisation of animal diseases within the framework of the Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) No 2016/429): bluetongue

EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare … - Efsa …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A specific concept of strain was developed in order to classify the BTV serotypes ever
reported in Europe based on their properties of animal health impact: the genotype …

Experimental infections of wild birds with West Nile virus

E Pérez-Ramírez, F Llorente, MÁ Jiménez-Clavero - Viruses, 2014 - mdpi.com
Avian models of West Nile virus (WNV) disease have become pivotal in the study of infection
pathogenesis and transmission, despite the intrinsic constraints that represents this type of …

Climatic effects on mosquito abundance in Mediterranean wetlands

D Roiz, S Ruiz, R Soriguer, J Figuerola - Parasites & vectors, 2014 - Springer
Background The impact of climate change on vector-borne diseases is highly controversial.
One of the principal points of debate is whether or not climate influences mosquito …

Mosquito-borne epornitic flaviviruses: An update and review

E Benzarti, A Linden, D Desmecht… - Journal of General …, 2019 - microbiologyresearch.org
West Nile Virus, Usutu virus, Bagaza virus, Israel turkey encephalitis virus and Tembusu
virus currently constitute the five flaviviruses transmitted by mosquito bites with a marked …

Pathology and tissue tropism of natural West Nile virus infection in birds: a review

V Gamino, U Höfle - Veterinary research, 2013 - Springer
West Nile virus (WNV) is a globally distributed arthropod-borne flavivirus capable of infecting
a wide variety of vertebrates, with birds as its natural reservoir. Although it had been …

A novel quantitative multiplex real-time RT-PCR for the simultaneous detection and differentiation of West Nile virus lineages 1 and 2, and of Usutu virus

J Del Amo, E Sotelo, J Fernández-Pinero… - Journal of virological …, 2013 - Elsevier
An increase in activity of two mosquito-borne flaviviruses, West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu
virus (USUV), has been reported in Europe in recent years. The current epidemiological …

[HTML][HTML] Bagaza virus in partridges and pheasants, Spain, 2010

M Agüero, J Fernández-Pinero, D Buitrago… - Emerging infectious …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In September 2010, an unusually high number of wild birds (partridges and pheasants) died
in Cádiz in southwestern Spain. Reverse transcription PCR and virus isolation detected …