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Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography
West Nile virus lineage 2 (WNV-2) was mainly confined to sub-Saharan Africa until the early 2000s, when it was identified for the first time in Central Europe causing outbreaks of human and animal infection. The aim of this study was to reconstruct the origin and dispersion of WNV-2 in Central Europ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28678837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179679 |
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author | Zehender, Gianguglielmo Veo, Carla Ebranati, Erika Carta, Valentina Rovida, Francesca Percivalle, Elena Moreno, Ana Lelli, Davide Calzolari, Mattia Lavazza, Antonio Chiapponi, Chiara Baioni, Laura Capelli, Gioia Ravagnan, Silvia Da Rold, Graziana Lavezzo, Enrico Palù, Giorgio Baldanti, Fausto Barzon, Luisa Galli, Massimo |
author_facet | Zehender, Gianguglielmo Veo, Carla Ebranati, Erika Carta, Valentina Rovida, Francesca Percivalle, Elena Moreno, Ana Lelli, Davide Calzolari, Mattia Lavazza, Antonio Chiapponi, Chiara Baioni, Laura Capelli, Gioia Ravagnan, Silvia Da Rold, Graziana Lavezzo, Enrico Palù, Giorgio Baldanti, Fausto Barzon, Luisa Galli, Massimo |
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description | West Nile virus lineage 2 (WNV-2) was mainly confined to sub-Saharan Africa until the early 2000s, when it was identified for the first time in Central Europe causing outbreaks of human and animal infection. The aim of this study was to reconstruct the origin and dispersion of WNV-2 in Central Europe and Italy on a phylodynamic and phylogeographical basis. To this aim, discrete and continuous space phylogeographical models were applied to a total of 33 newly characterised full-length viral genomes obtained from mosquitoes, birds and humans in Northern Italy in the years 2013–2015 aligned with 64 complete sequences isolated mainly in Europe. The European isolates segregated into two highly significant clades: a small one including three sequences and a large clade including the majority of isolates obtained in Central Europe since 2004. Discrete phylogeographical analysis showed that the most probable location of the root of the largest European clade was in Hungary a mean 12.78 years ago. The European clade bifurcated into two highly supported subclades: one including most of the Central/East European isolates and the other encompassing all of the isolates obtained in Greece. The continuous space phylogeographical analysis of the Italian clade showed that WNV-2 entered Italy in about 2008, probably by crossing the Adriatic sea and reaching a central area of the Po Valley. The epidemic then spread simultaneously eastward, to reach the region of the Po delta in 2013, and westward to the border area between Lombardy and Piedmont in 2014; later, the western strain changed direction southward, and reached the central area of the Po valley once again in 2015. Over a period of about seven years, the virus spread all over an area of northern Italy by following the Po river and its main tributaries. |
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spelling | pubmed-54979612017-07-25 Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography Zehender, Gianguglielmo Veo, Carla Ebranati, Erika Carta, Valentina Rovida, Francesca Percivalle, Elena Moreno, Ana Lelli, Davide Calzolari, Mattia Lavazza, Antonio Chiapponi, Chiara Baioni, Laura Capelli, Gioia Ravagnan, Silvia Da Rold, Graziana Lavezzo, Enrico Palù, Giorgio Baldanti, Fausto Barzon, Luisa Galli, Massimo PLoS One Research Article West Nile virus lineage 2 (WNV-2) was mainly confined to sub-Saharan Africa until the early 2000s, when it was identified for the first time in Central Europe causing outbreaks of human and animal infection. The aim of this study was to reconstruct the origin and dispersion of WNV-2 in Central Europe and Italy on a phylodynamic and phylogeographical basis. To this aim, discrete and continuous space phylogeographical models were applied to a total of 33 newly characterised full-length viral genomes obtained from mosquitoes, birds and humans in Northern Italy in the years 2013–2015 aligned with 64 complete sequences isolated mainly in Europe. The European isolates segregated into two highly significant clades: a small one including three sequences and a large clade including the majority of isolates obtained in Central Europe since 2004. Discrete phylogeographical analysis showed that the most probable location of the root of the largest European clade was in Hungary a mean 12.78 years ago. The European clade bifurcated into two highly supported subclades: one including most of the Central/East European isolates and the other encompassing all of the isolates obtained in Greece. The continuous space phylogeographical analysis of the Italian clade showed that WNV-2 entered Italy in about 2008, probably by crossing the Adriatic sea and reaching a central area of the Po Valley. The epidemic then spread simultaneously eastward, to reach the region of the Po delta in 2013, and westward to the border area between Lombardy and Piedmont in 2014; later, the western strain changed direction southward, and reached the central area of the Po valley once again in 2015. Over a period of about seven years, the virus spread all over an area of northern Italy by following the Po river and its main tributaries. Public Library of Science 2017-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5497961/ /pubmed/28678837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179679 Text en © 2017 Zehender et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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 author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Zehender, Gianguglielmo Veo, Carla Ebranati, Erika Carta, Valentina Rovida, Francesca Percivalle, Elena Moreno, Ana Lelli, Davide Calzolari, Mattia Lavazza, Antonio Chiapponi, Chiara Baioni, Laura Capelli, Gioia Ravagnan, Silvia Da Rold, Graziana Lavezzo, Enrico Palù, Giorgio Baldanti, Fausto Barzon, Luisa Galli, Massimo Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography |
title | Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography |
title_full | Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography |
title_fullStr | Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography |
title_full_unstemmed | Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography |
title_short | Reconstructing the recent West Nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in Europe and Italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography |
title_sort | reconstructing the recent west nile virus lineage 2 epidemic in europe and italy using discrete and continuous phylogeography |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5497961/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28678837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179679 |
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