title: Genetic characterization of West Nile virus lineage 2, Greece, 2010.
abstract: We conducted a complete genome analysis of a West Nile virus detected in Culex pipiens mosquitoes during a severe outbreak of human West Nile disease in Greece 2010. The virus showed closest genetic relationship to the lineage 2 strain that emerged in Hungary in 2004; increased virulence may be associated with amino acid substitution H249P.
authors.affiliation: Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Papa
authors.forename: Tamás
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bakonyi
authors.forename: Kyriaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Xanthopoulou
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vázquez
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tenorio
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nowotny
mesh_terms: D019943:Amino Acid Substitution / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D003465:Culex / Q000821:virology; D008040:Genetic Linkage / Q000235:genetics; D006115:Greece; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000821:virology*; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral; D017361:Viral Nonstructural Proteins