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West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel
In order to evaluate the contribution of different wild bird species to West Nile virus (WNV) circulation in Israel, during the months preceding the 2018 outbreak that occurred in Israel, we randomly sampled 136 frozen carcasses of a variety of avian species. Visceral and central nervous system (CNS...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8780237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35056055 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11010107 |
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author | Schvartz, Gili Tirosh-Levy, Sharon Bider, Shahar Lublin, Avishai Farnoushi, Yigal Erster, Oran Steinman, Amir |
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description | In order to evaluate the contribution of different wild bird species to West Nile virus (WNV) circulation in Israel, during the months preceding the 2018 outbreak that occurred in Israel, we randomly sampled 136 frozen carcasses of a variety of avian species. Visceral and central nervous system (CNS) tissue pools were tested using WNV NS2A RT qPCR assay; of those, 15 (11.03%, 95% CI: 6.31–17.54%) tissue pools were positive. A total of 13 out of 15 WNV RT qPCR positive samples were successfully sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that all WNV isolates were identified as lineage 1 and all categorized as cluster 2 eastern European. Our results indicated that WNV isolates that circulated within the surveyed wild birds in spring 2018 were closely related to several of the isolates of the previously reported 2018 outbreak in birds in Israel and that the majority of infected birds were of local species. |
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spelling | pubmed-87802372022-01-22 West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel Schvartz, Gili Tirosh-Levy, Sharon Bider, Shahar Lublin, Avishai Farnoushi, Yigal Erster, Oran Steinman, Amir Pathogens Article In order to evaluate the contribution of different wild bird species to West Nile virus (WNV) circulation in Israel, during the months preceding the 2018 outbreak that occurred in Israel, we randomly sampled 136 frozen carcasses of a variety of avian species. Visceral and central nervous system (CNS) tissue pools were tested using WNV NS2A RT qPCR assay; of those, 15 (11.03%, 95% CI: 6.31–17.54%) tissue pools were positive. A total of 13 out of 15 WNV RT qPCR positive samples were successfully sequenced. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that all WNV isolates were identified as lineage 1 and all categorized as cluster 2 eastern European. Our results indicated that WNV isolates that circulated within the surveyed wild birds in spring 2018 were closely related to several of the isolates of the previously reported 2018 outbreak in birds in Israel and that the majority of infected birds were of local species. MDPI 2022-01-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8780237/ /pubmed/35056055 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11010107 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Schvartz, Gili Tirosh-Levy, Sharon Bider, Shahar Lublin, Avishai Farnoushi, Yigal Erster, Oran Steinman, Amir West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel |
title | West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel |
title_full | West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel |
title_fullStr | West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel |
title_full_unstemmed | West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel |
title_short | West Nile Virus in Common Wild Avian Species in Israel |
title_sort | west nile virus in common wild avian species in israel |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8780237/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35056055 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11010107 |
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