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Published on: June 9, 2011
Genetic characterization of West Nile virus lineage 2, Greece, 2010
Anna Papa1, Tamás Bakonyi, Kyriaki Xanthopoulou
1Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 3, 2011
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.

