Article
Circulation of West Nile Virus and Usutu Virus in Birds in Germany, 2021 and 2022
2024-08-28
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background</h4> Usutu virus (USUV) and West Nile virus (WNV) are zoonotic arthropod-borne orthoflaviviruses. The enzootic transmission cycles of both include Culex mosquitoes as vectors and birds as amplifying hosts. For more than ten years, these viruses have been monitored in birds in Germany by a multidisciplinary network. While USUV is present nationwide, WNV used to be restricted to the central-east. <...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 0494bb54-a249-534c-ac4b-6839e3281725
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.08.28.610071
