title: Evidence of enzootic circulation of West Nile virus (Nea Santa-Greece-2010, lineage 2), Greece, May to July 2011.
abstract: A West Nile virus (WNV) surveillance network including sentinel chickens was deployed in Thessaloniki county, Greece, from May to July 2011. For the first time in summer 2011, a chicken WNV isolate from 6 July was molecularly identified. The partial NS3 sequence was identical to that of the Nea Santa-Greece-2010 WNV lineage 2, detected in central Macedonia in 2010. This suggests that WNV is actively circulating in central Macedonia and that it may have overwintered in northern Greece.
authors.affiliation: United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), European Biological Control Laboratory, Thessaloniki, Greece. andahask@ufl.edu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chaskopoulou
authors.forename: Ci
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dovas
authors.forename: Sc
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chaintoutis
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bouzalas
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ara
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Papanastassopoulou
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000821:virology; D009033:Culicidae / Q000821:virology*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000662:veterinary; D005260:Female; D006115:Greece / Q000453:epidemiology; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000662:veterinary; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral