Surveillance of mosquito vectors in Southern Sweden for Flaviviruses and Sindbis virus

There are three human pathogenic bird-viruses transmitted by Culex mosquitoes in Europe: the alphavirus Sindbis and the flaviviruses West Nile virus and Usutu virus. Cases of Sindbis fever occur in the north while the flaviviruses are reported from southern Europe. In this study, 7933 Culex pipiens/...

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Autores principales: Hesson, Jenny C., Lundin, Emma, Lundkvist, Åke, Lundström, Jan O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2019
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31853338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008686.2019.1698903
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author Hesson, Jenny C.
Lundin, Emma
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description There are three human pathogenic bird-viruses transmitted by Culex mosquitoes in Europe: the alphavirus Sindbis and the flaviviruses West Nile virus and Usutu virus. Cases of Sindbis fever occur in the north while the flaviviruses are reported from southern Europe. In this study, 7933 Culex pipiens/torrentium mosquitoes from southern Sweden were screened by RTqPCR for these viruses. None of the mosquitoes were positive for viral RNA. The importance of mosquito species composition is discussed as a potential explanation to the lack of detection of mosquito-borne viruses in southern Sweden. However, continued surveillance of mosquitoes for Flaviviruses would be valuable as an early warning for public health awareness.
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spelling pubmed-69136352019-12-18 Surveillance of mosquito vectors in Southern Sweden for Flaviviruses and Sindbis virus Hesson, Jenny C. Lundin, Emma Lundkvist, Åke Lundström, Jan O. Infect Ecol Epidemiol Short Communication There are three human pathogenic bird-viruses transmitted by Culex mosquitoes in Europe: the alphavirus Sindbis and the flaviviruses West Nile virus and Usutu virus. Cases of Sindbis fever occur in the north while the flaviviruses are reported from southern Europe. In this study, 7933 Culex pipiens/torrentium mosquitoes from southern Sweden were screened by RTqPCR for these viruses. None of the mosquitoes were positive for viral RNA. The importance of mosquito species composition is discussed as a potential explanation to the lack of detection of mosquito-borne viruses in southern Sweden. However, continued surveillance of mosquitoes for Flaviviruses would be valuable as an early warning for public health awareness. Taylor & Francis 2019-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6913635/ /pubmed/31853338 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008686.2019.1698903 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. 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 work is properly cited.
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Surveillance of mosquito vectors in Southern Sweden for Flaviviruses and Sindbis virus
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title_full Surveillance of mosquito vectors in Southern Sweden for Flaviviruses and Sindbis virus
title_fullStr Surveillance of mosquito vectors in Southern Sweden for Flaviviruses and Sindbis virus
title_full_unstemmed Surveillance of mosquito vectors in Southern Sweden for Flaviviruses and Sindbis virus
title_short Surveillance of mosquito vectors in Southern Sweden for Flaviviruses and Sindbis virus
title_sort surveillance of mosquito vectors in southern sweden for flaviviruses and sindbis virus
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6913635/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20008686.2019.1698903
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