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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 31, 04 August 2011
Rapid communications
Evidence of enzootic circulation of West Nile virus (Nea Santa-Greece-2010, lineage 2), Greece, May to July 2011
A Chaskopoulou (
)<SUP>1</SUP>, C I Dovas<SUP>2</SUP>, S C Chaintoutis<SUP>2</SUP>, I Bouzalas<SUP>2</SUP>, G Ara<SUP>3</SUP>, M Papanastassopoulou<SUP>2</SUP>
Citation style for this article: Chaskopoulou A, Dovas CI, Chaintoutis SC, Bouzalas I, Ara G, Papanastassopoulou M. Evidence of enzootic circulation of West Nile virus (Nea Santa-Greece-2010, lineage 2), Greece, May to July 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(31)
ii=19933. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19933
Date of submission: 28 July 2011 <HR>A West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance network including sentinel chickens was deployed in Thessaloniki county, Greece, from May to July 2011. For the first time in summer 2011, a chicken WNV isolate from 6 July was molecularly identified. The partial NS3 sequence was identical to that of the Nea Santa-Greece-2010 WNV lineage 2, detected in central Macedonia in 2010. This suggests that WNV is actively circulating in central Macedonia and that it may have overwintered in northern Greece.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 16, Issue 31, 04 August 2011
Rapid communications
Evidence of enzootic circulation of West Nile virus (Nea Santa-Greece-2010, lineage 2), Greece, May to July 2011
A Chaskopoulou (
- United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), European Biological Control Laboratory, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Laboratory of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Thessaloniki, Greece
- American Farm School, Thessaloniki, Greece
Citation style for this article: Chaskopoulou A, Dovas CI, Chaintoutis SC, Bouzalas I, Ara G, Papanastassopoulou M. Evidence of enzootic circulation of West Nile virus (Nea Santa-Greece-2010, lineage 2), Greece, May to July 2011. Euro Surveill. 2011;16(31)
ii=19933. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19933 Date of submission: 28 July 2011 <HR>A West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance network including sentinel chickens was deployed in Thessaloniki county, Greece, from May to July 2011. For the first time in summer 2011, a chicken WNV isolate from 6 July was molecularly identified. The partial NS3 sequence was identical to that of the Nea Santa-Greece-2010 WNV lineage 2, detected in central Macedonia in 2010. This suggests that WNV is actively circulating in central Macedonia and that it may have overwintered in northern Greece.