Expanding Usutu virus circulation in Italy: detection in the Lazio region, central Italy, 2017 to 2018

Autor: Concetta Castilletti, Maria Rosaria Capobianchi, Silvia Meschi, Giuseppina Cappiello, Claudio De Liberato, Francesca Colavita, Francesca Rovida, Ida Ricci, Eleonora Lalle, Elena Percivalle, Francesco Messina, Fausto Baldanti, Alberto Spanò, Francesco Vairo, Giuseppe Ippolito, Fabrizio Carletti, Licia Bordi, Francesca Rosone
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Epidemiology
viruses
vector-borne infections
Blood Donors
medicine.disease_cause
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Disease Outbreaks
Blood donations
0302 clinical medicine
flavivirus
Usutu virus
Phylogeny
0303 health sciences
blood-borne infections
biology
virus diseases
Middle Aged
blood donation screening
zoonotic infections
infection control
3. Good health
Flavivirus
Geography
Lazio region
Italy
surveillance
West Nile virus
Nucleic Acid Amplification Techniques
Sequence Analysis
Rapid Communication
Adult
viral infections
030231 tropical medicine
Arbovirus
Virus
Flavivirus Infections
03 medical and health sciences
Flaviviridae
Virology
medicine
Animals
Humans
030304 developmental biology
Aged
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
emerging viruses
arbovirus
Culicidae
laboratory
Sentinel Surveillance
Zdroj: Eurosurveillance
ISSN: 1560-7917
1025-496X
Popis: Blood donation screening for West Nile virus (WNV) was mandatory in the Lazio region in 2017 and 2018 (June-November) according to the national surveillance plan. In these years, all five donations reactive in WNV nucleic acid amplification tests harboured instead Usutu virus (USUV). Clade ‘Europe 2’ was identified in four blood donations and a 2018 mosquito pool. The cocirculation of WNV and USUV in Lazio warrants increased laboratory support and awareness of possible virus misidentification.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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