Putative Lineage of Novel African Usutu Virus, Central Europe.
We characterized the complete genome of a putative novel Usutu virus (USUV) strain (Usutu-BONN) detected in a dead blackbird from Germany. Genomic analysis revealed several unique amino acid substitutions among the polyprotein gene. Phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that Usutu-BONN constitutes a putative novel African USUV lineage, which was probably recently introduced to central Europe.
Daniel
D
Cadar
Stefan
S
Bosch
Hanna
H
Jöst
Jessica
J
Börstler
Mutien-Marie
MM
Garigliany
Norbert
N
Becker
Jonas
J
Schmidt-Chanasit
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000821:virology; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology; D009033:Culicidae / Q000821:virology; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D005416:Flavivirus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018177:Flavivirus Infections / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D016679:Genome, Viral / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000821:virology; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis
D012367:RNA, Viral
African Usutu virus; Central Europe; complete genome; novel lineage; phylogeny; viruses