OVERWINTERING OF URANOTAENIA UNGUICULATA ADULT FEMALES IN CENTRAL EUROPE: A POSSIBLE WAY OF PERSISTENCE OF THE PUTATIVE NEW LINEAGE OF WEST NILE VIRUS?

• Authors: RUDOLF Ivo; SEBESTA O.; STRAKOVÁ Petra; BETÁŠOVÁ Lenka; BLAŽEJOVÁ Hana; VENCLÍKOVÁ Kristýna; SEIDEL B.; TOTH S.; HUBÁLEK Zdeněk; SCHAFFNER Francis
• Year of publication: 2015
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MOSQUITO CONTROL ASSOCIATION
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Microbiology, virology
• Keywords: Mosquito; mosquito-borne viruses; overwintering; Uranotaenia unguiculata; West Nile virus
• Description: We report the overwintering of Uranotaenia unguiculata adult females in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria). This finding suggests a potential mode of winter persistence of putative novel lineage of West Nile virus in the temperate regions of Europe.