First Record of Mosquito-Borne Kyzylagach Virus in Central Europe

Silvie Šikutová; Patrik Dočkal; Petra Straková; Jan Mendel; Oldřich Šebesta; Lenka Betášová; Hana Blažejová; Zdeněk Hubálek; Ivo Rudolf

doi:10.3390/v12121445

First Record of Mosquito-Borne Kyzylagach Virus in Central Europe

Viruses. 2020 Dec 16;12(12):1445. doi: 10.3390/v12121445.

Authors

Silvie Šikutová¹, Patrik Dočkal¹, Petra Straková^{1

2}, Jan Mendel¹, Oldřich Šebesta¹, Lenka Betášová¹, Hana Blažejová¹, Zdeněk Hubálek¹, Ivo Rudolf¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Vertebrate Biology, The Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Květná 8, CZ-60365 Brno, Czech Republic.
² Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 70, CZ-62100 Brno, Czech Republic.

Abstract

RNA of Kyzylagach virus (KYZV), a Sindbis-like mosquito-borne alphavirus from Western equine encephalitis virus complex, was detected in four pools (out of 221 pools examined), encompassing 10,784 female Culex modestus mosquitoes collected at a fishpond in south Moravia, Czech Republic, with a minimum infection rate of 0.04%. This alphavirus was never detected in Central Europe before.

Keywords: Culex modestus; Sindbis; alphaviruses; arboviruses; mosquito; reedbeds.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Alphavirus Infections / transmission*
Alphavirus Infections / virology*
Animals
Culicidae / virology*
Europe / epidemiology
Female
Mosquito Vectors / virology*
Sindbis Virus*