TY - JOUR AU - Papa, Anna AU - Bakonyi, Tamás AU - Xanthopoulou, Kyriaki AU - Vázquez, Ana AU - Tenorio, Antonio AU - Nowotny, Norbert T1 - Genetic Characterization of West Nile Virus Lineage 2, Greece, 2010 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2011 VL - 17 IS - 5 SP - 920 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We conducted a complete genome analysis of a West Nile virus detected in Culex pipiens mosquitoes during a severe outbreak of human West Nile disease in Greece 2010. The virus showed closest genetic relationship to the lineage 2 strain that emerged in Hungary in 2004; increased virulence may be associated with amino acid substitution H249P. KW - viruses KW - West Nile virus KW - lineage 2 KW - flavivirus KW - neuroinvasive KW - human KW - mosquito KW - Greece KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1705.101759 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/5/10-1759_article ER - End of Reference