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dc.contributor.authorErgünay, Koray
dc.contributor.authorLitzba, Nadine
dc.contributor.authorBrinkmann, Annika
dc.contributor.authorGünay, Filiz
dc.contributor.authorSarıkaya, Yasemen
dc.contributor.authorKar, Sırrı
dc.contributor.authorÖrsten, Serra
dc.contributor.authorÖter, Kerem
dc.contributor.authorDomingo, Cristina
dc.contributor.authorErisoz Kasap, Özge
dc.contributor.authorÖzkul, Aykut
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Luke
dc.contributor.authorNitsche, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorAlten, Bülent
dc.contributor.authorLinton, Yvonne-Marie
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-16T07:57:46Z
dc.date.available2019-12-16T07:57:46Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn1756-3305
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-017-2087-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5360070/
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11655/19453
dc.description.abstractBackground Active vector surveillance provides an efficient tool for monitoring the presence or spread of emerging or re-emerging vector-borne viruses. This study was undertaken to investigate the circulation of flaviviruses. Mosquitoes were collected from 58 locations in 10 provinces across the Aegean, Thrace and Mediterranean Anatolian regions of Turkey in 2014 and 2015. Following morphological identification, mosquitoes were pooled and screened by nested and real-time PCR assays. Detected viruses were further characterised by sequencing. Positive pools were inoculated onto cell lines for virus isolation. Next generation sequencing was employed for genomic characterisation of the isolates. Results A total of 12,711 mosquito specimens representing 15 species were screened in 594 pools. Eleven pools (2%) were reactive in the virus screening assays. Sequencing revealed West Nile virus (WNV) in one Culex pipiens (s.l.) pool from Thrace. WNV sequence corresponded to lineage one clade 1a but clustered distinctly from the Turkish prototype isolate. In 10 pools, insect-specific flaviviruses were characterised as Culex theileri flavivirus in 5 pools of Culex theileri and one pool of Cx. pipiens (s.l.), Ochlerotatus caspius flavivirus in two pools of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) caspius, Flavivirus AV-2011 in one pool of Culiseta annulata, and an undetermined flavivirus in one pool of Uranotaenia unguiculata from the Aegean and Thrace regions. DNA forms or integration of the detected insect-specific flaviviruses were not observed. A virus strain, tentatively named as “Ochlerotatus caspius flavivirus Turkey”, was isolated from an Ae. caspius pool in C6/36 cells. The viral genome comprised 10,370 nucleotides with a putative polyprotein of 3,385 amino acids that follows the canonical flavivirus polyprotein organisation. Sequence comparisons and phylogenetic analyses revealed the close relationship of this strain with Ochlerotatus caspius flavivirus from Portugal and Hanko virus from Finland. Several conserved structural and amino acid motifs were identified. Conclusions We identified WNV and several distinct insect-specific flaviviruses during an extensive biosurveillance study of mosquitoes in various regions of Turkey in 2014 and 2015. Ongoing circulation of WNV is revealed, with an unprecedented genetic diversity. A probable replicating form of an insect flavivirus identified only in DNA form was detected. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13071-017-2087-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.titleCo-Circulation Of West Nile Virus And Distinct Insect-Specific Flaviviruses In Turkey
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dc.relation.journalParasites & Vectors
dc.contributor.departmentBiyoloji
dc.identifier.volume10
dc.description.indexPubMed
dc.description.indexWoS
dc.description.indexScopus


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