West Nile virus outbreak in humans, Greece, 2012: third consecutive year of local transmission

Pervanidou, Danai; Detsis, Marios; Danis, Kostas; Mellou, Kassiani; Papanikolaou, Eleni; Terzaki, I; Baka, A; Veneti, Lamprini; Vakali, Annita; Δουγάς, Γεώργιος; Politis, C.; Stamoulis, Kostas; Tsiodras, Sotirios; Georgakopoulou, Theano; Papa, Anna; Tsakris, Athanassios; Kremastinou, Jenny; Hadjichristodoulou, Christos

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.13.20758

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“…After 2010, outbreaks continued to occur in various parts of Greece with epicenters in Attiki, Thessaly, Eastern Macedonia, Thrace, and Ilia. By the end of the year 2014, a total of 624 cases (71% WNND and 29% WNF) had been reported to the Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Hellenic CDC) . The overall fatality rate of 72 deaths among 441 WNND cases (16.3%) in the period 2010 to 2014 is considered to be the highest in Europe …”

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Associations of ABO, D, and Lewis blood groups and HLA Class I and Class II alleles with West Nile virus Lineage 2 disease outcome in Greece, 2010 to 2013

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Associations of ABO, D, and Lewis blood groups and HLA Class I and Class II alleles with West Nile virus Lineage 2 disease outcome in Greece, 2010 to 2013

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“…From 2008 onwards, an unexpected explosive spread of WNV-2, which resulted in several hundreds of human neuroinvasive cases, has been documented in Hungary, Greece and Serbia [5][6][7].…”

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West Nile virus lineage 2 isolated from Culex modestus mosquitoes in the Czech Republic, 2013: expansion of the European WNV endemic area to the North?

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We report the detection and isolation of four almost identical strains of West Nile virus (WNV) lineage 2 from Culex modestus mosquitoes collected at three fish ponds in South Moravia, Czech Republic, during August 2013. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that the Czech WNV strains isolated are closely related to Austrian, Italian and Serbian strains reported in 2008, 2011 and 2012, respectively. Our findings show the current northernmost range of lineage 2 WNV in Europe.

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“…We have two general goals in this current paper. First, to describe the results of a field study in Greece on adult female West Nile virus mosquitoes, Culex pipiens (Pervanidou et al, 2014) in which the post-capture lifespans of over 1500 individuals were monitored over the field season from June through December. Second, to consider these results in the complementary contexts of both basic and applied science, the former involving demography and the biology of aging, and the latter involving medical entomology and epidemiology of mosquito-borne diseases.…”

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Seasonality of Post-capture Longevity in a Medically-Important Mosquito (Culex pipiens)

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The epidemiological importance of the age structure and longevity potential of wild populations of mosquito disease vectors has been known for over 60 years. However, no routine method currently exists that provides reliable insights into the population age dynamics of this medically important group of insects. In this paper we use a technique originally developed for studying wild fruit fly populations to study the post-capture longevity dynamics in populations of the West Nile virus mosquito Culex pipiens in Greece. This approach, referred to as the captive cohort method, analyzes and interprets the longevity trends in wild-caught Cx. pipiens to infer demographic changes in their field population. Approximately 10 adult females were captured each day from June through November, housed in individual cages in the laboratory, and their remaining longevity recorded. Strong differences were observed in the mean, variation, and extremes of post-capture longevity. Early season (June-July) mosquitoes lived the shortest and late season the longest with a clear transition period in September. The mean levels of post-capture longevity were quite high at over 2 months in early season to over 85 days in late season when the vast majority of adults were nulliparous and likely preparing for hibernation. Implications for both basic and epidemiological research on the biodemography of aging in the wild are discussed.

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West Nile virus outbreak in humans, Greece, 2012: third consecutive year of local transmission

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Cited by 47 publications

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Associations of ABO, D, and Lewis blood groups and HLA Class I and Class II alleles with West Nile virus Lineage 2 disease outcome in Greece, 2010 to 2013

Associations of ABO, D, and Lewis blood groups and HLA Class I and Class II alleles with West Nile virus Lineage 2 disease outcome in Greece, 2010 to 2013

West Nile virus lineage 2 isolated from Culex modestus mosquitoes in the Czech Republic, 2013: expansion of the European WNV endemic area to the North?

Seasonality of Post-capture Longevity in a Medically-Important Mosquito (Culex pipiens)

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