Evidence of enzootic circulation of West Nile virus (Nea Santa-Greece-2010, lineage 2), Greece, May to July 2011

Euro Surveill. 2011 Aug 4;16(31):19933.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Chickens* / virology
  • Culicidae / virology*
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / veterinary
  • Female
  • Greece / epidemiology
  • Pilot Projects
  • Poultry Diseases / epidemiology
  • Poultry Diseases / virology
  • RNA, Viral / isolation & purification*
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / veterinary
  • Sentinel Surveillance*
  • West Nile Fever / epidemiology
  • West Nile Fever / veterinary
  • West Nile virus / genetics
  • West Nile virus / isolation & purification*

Substances

  • RNA, Viral