title: Close relationship between West Nile virus from Turkey and lineage 1 strain from Central African Republic.
abstract: We sequenced West Nile viruses (WNVs) from Turkey and found close relationships to WNV lineage 1 strain ArB310/67 from the Central African Republic, distinct from other WNVs circulating in the Mediterranean Basin, eastern Europe, and the Middle East. These findings suggest independent introductions of WNV strains from Africa to the Middle East.
authors.forename: Koray
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ergunay
authors.forename: Tamas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bakonyi
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nowotny
authors.forename: Aykut
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ozkul
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002488:Central African Republic / Q000453:epidemiology; D016679:Genome, Viral; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D006736:Horses; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D014421:Turkey / Q000453:epidemiology; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000662:veterinary*; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral