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West Nile Virus Lineage 2 Associated with Human Case in Republic of Serbia
Aleksandra Jovanović Galović1, Jacqueline Weyer2, Petrus Jansen van Vuren2
11 Center of Virology, Institute of Public Health of Vojvodina , Novi Sad, Serbia .
Abstract:
A suspicion on West Nile virus (WNV) in Serbia was first reported in 1972 by a seroprevalence study, after which no data were available for four decades. We report full sequence of the isolate obtained for the first time from a human sample in Serbia. The closest clustering was obtained with lineage 2 WNV identified in Greece in 2010. Since WNV lineage 2 emerged in Europe in 2004, a cocirculation of lineages 1 and 2-as observed in Hungary and Italy-cannot be excluded. The reinforcement of surveillance will be required to investigate the possible cocirculation of the two lineages and the burden of WNV in the local population.
