Lack of evidence for the presence of Schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in Germany, 2011

BACKGROUND: In 2011, a novel orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup was discovered near the German-Dutch border and named Schmallenberg virus (SBV). So far, SBV genome has been detected in various field-collected Culicoides species; however, other members of the Simbu serogroup are also transmitted...

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Autores principales: Wernike, Kerstin, Jöst, Hanna, Becker, Norbert, Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas, Beer, Martin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25174354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-402
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author Wernike, Kerstin
Jöst, Hanna
Becker, Norbert
Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
Beer, Martin
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description BACKGROUND: In 2011, a novel orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup was discovered near the German-Dutch border and named Schmallenberg virus (SBV). So far, SBV genome has been detected in various field-collected Culicoides species; however, other members of the Simbu serogroup are also transmitted by mosquitoes. FINDINGS: In the present study, approximately 50,000 mosquitoes of various species were collected during summer and early autumn 2011 in Germany. None of them tested positive in an SBV-specific real-time PCR. CONCLUSIONS: The absence of SBV in mosquitoes caught in 2011 in Germany suggests that they play no or only a negligible role in the spread of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-41580552014-09-10 Lack of evidence for the presence of Schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in Germany, 2011 Wernike, Kerstin Jöst, Hanna Becker, Norbert Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas Beer, Martin Parasit Vectors Short Report BACKGROUND: In 2011, a novel orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup was discovered near the German-Dutch border and named Schmallenberg virus (SBV). So far, SBV genome has been detected in various field-collected Culicoides species; however, other members of the Simbu serogroup are also transmitted by mosquitoes. FINDINGS: In the present study, approximately 50,000 mosquitoes of various species were collected during summer and early autumn 2011 in Germany. None of them tested positive in an SBV-specific real-time PCR. CONCLUSIONS: The absence of SBV in mosquitoes caught in 2011 in Germany suggests that they play no or only a negligible role in the spread of the disease. BioMed Central 2014-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC4158055/ /pubmed/25174354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-402 Text en © Wernike et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Beer, Martin
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title Lack of evidence for the presence of Schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in Germany, 2011
title_full Lack of evidence for the presence of Schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in Germany, 2011
title_fullStr Lack of evidence for the presence of Schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in Germany, 2011
title_full_unstemmed Lack of evidence for the presence of Schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in Germany, 2011
title_short Lack of evidence for the presence of Schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in Germany, 2011
title_sort lack of evidence for the presence of schmallenberg virus in mosquitoes in germany, 2011
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158055/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25174354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-402
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