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Volume 6 Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapy
ISSN: 2332-0877 Infection Congress 2018
March 01-02, 2018
March 01-02, 2018 Berlin, Germany
5th International Congress on
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
First genetic characterization of Usutu virus from Culex pipiens mosquitoes Serbia, 2014
Brigitta Zana1, Gábor Kemenesi1, Dóra Buzás1, Kornélia Kurucz1, Bosiljka Krtinic2, Anett Kepner3, Fanni Földes1 and Ferenc Jakab1
1University of Pécs, Hungary
2Ciklonizacija Ltd., Novi Sad, Serbia
3PROPHYL Ltd., Mohács, Hungary
S ince its first appearance in Europe, Usutu virus (USUV) diverged to several different genetic lineages. The virus was reported
to date from multiple countries across Europe (Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic and Belgium).
Considering the more frequently published impact of the virus on humans it is crucial to investigate locally circulating genetic
variants and trace its evolution. We retrospectively analyzed mosquito samples from Serbia Vojvodina region, collected during
2014. In this study, we report the results of the screening of 23753 female mosquitoes (753 pools) for USUV-specific nucleic-
acid. Based on phylogenetic analysis the Serbian USUV sequence was most closely related to the virus that emerged in Austria
in 2001, in Hungary in 2005 and was circulating until 2015 in Hungary. This data presents a wider geographic distribution of
this genetic variant and provides the first genetic data from this region.
Recent Publications
1. Zana B (2016) Genomic characterization of West Nile virus strains derived from mosquito samples obtained during
2013 Serbian outbreak. Journal of Vector Borne Diseases 53:379.
2. Zana B (2017) Molecular traces of a putative novel insect flavi virus from Anopheles hyrcanus mosquito species in
Hungary. Acta Virologica 61:127-129.
3. Bányai K (2017) Candidate new rotavirus species in Schreiber's bats, Serbia. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 48:19-
26.
4. Kemenesi G (2017) Highly divergent cyclo-like virus in a great round leaf bat (Hipposideros armiger ) in Vietnam.
Archives of Virology 162:2403-2407.
5. Kurucz K (2017) Ecological preferences of the putative West Nile virus vector Uranotaenia unguiculata mosquito with
description of an original larval habitat. North-Western Journal of Zoology 13(2):193-199.
Biography
Brigitta Zana is a PhD student at University of Pécs, Hungary. Her PhD program is focusing on the description and genetic characterization of viral pathogens
distributed by different vector organisms such as bats, mosquitoes and ticks. Her findings give detailed genetic characterization and phylo-geographic information
about human pathogenic viruses circulating in Central Europe and Asia.
Brigitta Zana et al., J Infect Dis Ther 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-039