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Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions

The increasing incidence of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Euro-Mediterranean area warrants the implementation of effective surveillance programs in animals. A crucial step in the fight against the disease is the evaluation of the capacity of the veterinary labs to accurately detect the infection in a...

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Autores principales: Pérez-Ramírez, Elisa, Cano-Gómez, Cristina, Llorente, Francisco, Vodica, Ani, Veljović, Ljubiša, Toklikishvilli, Natela, Sherifi, Kurtesh, Sghaier, Soufien, Omani, Amel, Kustura, Aida, Krstevski, Kiril, Karayel-Hacioglu, Ilke, Hagag, Naglaa Mohamed, El Hage, Jeanne, Davdyan, Hasmik, Bintarif, Mohd Saddam, Adzic, Bojan, Abouchoaib, Nabil, Jiménez-Clavero, Miguel Ángel, Fernández-Pinero, Jovita
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33322276
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9121038
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author Pérez-Ramírez, Elisa
Cano-Gómez, Cristina
Llorente, Francisco
Vodica, Ani
Veljović, Ljubiša
Toklikishvilli, Natela
Sherifi, Kurtesh
Sghaier, Soufien
Omani, Amel
Kustura, Aida
Krstevski, Kiril
Karayel-Hacioglu, Ilke
Hagag, Naglaa Mohamed
El Hage, Jeanne
Davdyan, Hasmik
Bintarif, Mohd Saddam
Adzic, Bojan
Abouchoaib, Nabil
Jiménez-Clavero, Miguel Ángel
Fernández-Pinero, Jovita
author_facet Pérez-Ramírez, Elisa
Cano-Gómez, Cristina
Llorente, Francisco
Vodica, Ani
Veljović, Ljubiša
Toklikishvilli, Natela
Sherifi, Kurtesh
Sghaier, Soufien
Omani, Amel
Kustura, Aida
Krstevski, Kiril
Karayel-Hacioglu, Ilke
Hagag, Naglaa Mohamed
El Hage, Jeanne
Davdyan, Hasmik
Bintarif, Mohd Saddam
Adzic, Bojan
Abouchoaib, Nabil
Jiménez-Clavero, Miguel Ángel
Fernández-Pinero, Jovita
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description The increasing incidence of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Euro-Mediterranean area warrants the implementation of effective surveillance programs in animals. A crucial step in the fight against the disease is the evaluation of the capacity of the veterinary labs to accurately detect the infection in animal populations. In this context, the animal virology network of the MediLabSecure project organized an external quality assessment (EQA) to evaluate the WNV molecular and serological diagnostic capacities of beneficiary veterinary labs. Laboratories from 17 Mediterranean and Black Sea countries participated. The results of the triplex real time RT-PCR for simultaneous detection and differentiation of WNV lineage 1 (L1), lineage 2 (L2) and Usutu virus (USUV) were highly satisfactory, especially for L1 and L2, with detection rates of 97.9% and 100%, respectively. For USUV, 75% of the labs reported correct results. More limitations were observed for the generic detection of flaviviruses using conventional reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), since only 46.1% reported correct results in the whole panel. As regards the serological panel, the results were excellent for the generic detection of WNV antibodies. More variability was observed for the specific detection of IgM antibodies with a higher percentage of incorrect results mainly in samples with low titers. This EQA provides a good overview of the WNV (and USUV) diagnostic performance of the involved veterinary labs and demonstrates that the implemented training program was successful in upgrading their diagnostic capacities.
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spelling pubmed-77632402020-12-27 Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions Pérez-Ramírez, Elisa Cano-Gómez, Cristina Llorente, Francisco Vodica, Ani Veljović, Ljubiša Toklikishvilli, Natela Sherifi, Kurtesh Sghaier, Soufien Omani, Amel Kustura, Aida Krstevski, Kiril Karayel-Hacioglu, Ilke Hagag, Naglaa Mohamed El Hage, Jeanne Davdyan, Hasmik Bintarif, Mohd Saddam Adzic, Bojan Abouchoaib, Nabil Jiménez-Clavero, Miguel Ángel Fernández-Pinero, Jovita Pathogens Article The increasing incidence of West Nile virus (WNV) in the Euro-Mediterranean area warrants the implementation of effective surveillance programs in animals. A crucial step in the fight against the disease is the evaluation of the capacity of the veterinary labs to accurately detect the infection in animal populations. In this context, the animal virology network of the MediLabSecure project organized an external quality assessment (EQA) to evaluate the WNV molecular and serological diagnostic capacities of beneficiary veterinary labs. Laboratories from 17 Mediterranean and Black Sea countries participated. The results of the triplex real time RT-PCR for simultaneous detection and differentiation of WNV lineage 1 (L1), lineage 2 (L2) and Usutu virus (USUV) were highly satisfactory, especially for L1 and L2, with detection rates of 97.9% and 100%, respectively. For USUV, 75% of the labs reported correct results. More limitations were observed for the generic detection of flaviviruses using conventional reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), since only 46.1% reported correct results in the whole panel. As regards the serological panel, the results were excellent for the generic detection of WNV antibodies. More variability was observed for the specific detection of IgM antibodies with a higher percentage of incorrect results mainly in samples with low titers. This EQA provides a good overview of the WNV (and USUV) diagnostic performance of the involved veterinary labs and demonstrates that the implemented training program was successful in upgrading their diagnostic capacities. MDPI 2020-12-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7763240/ /pubmed/33322276 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9121038 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pérez-Ramírez, Elisa
Cano-Gómez, Cristina
Llorente, Francisco
Vodica, Ani
Veljović, Ljubiša
Toklikishvilli, Natela
Sherifi, Kurtesh
Sghaier, Soufien
Omani, Amel
Kustura, Aida
Krstevski, Kiril
Karayel-Hacioglu, Ilke
Hagag, Naglaa Mohamed
El Hage, Jeanne
Davdyan, Hasmik
Bintarif, Mohd Saddam
Adzic, Bojan
Abouchoaib, Nabil
Jiménez-Clavero, Miguel Ángel
Fernández-Pinero, Jovita
Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions
title Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions
title_full Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions
title_fullStr Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions
title_short Evaluation of West Nile Virus Diagnostic Capacities in Veterinary Laboratories of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Regions
title_sort evaluation of west nile virus diagnostic capacities in veterinary laboratories of the mediterranean and black sea regions
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7763240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33322276
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens9121038
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