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First Record of Mosquito-Borne Kyzylagach Virus in Central Europe.

Silvie ŠikutováPatrik DočkalPetra StrakováJan MendelOldřich ŠebestaLenka BetášováHana BlažejováZdeněk HubálekIvo Rudolf
Published in: Viruses (2020)
RNA of Kyzylagach virus (KYZV), a Sindbis-like mosquito-borne alphavirus from Western equine encephalitis virus complex, was detected in four pools (out of 221 pools examined), encompassing 10,784 female Culex modestus mosquitoes collected at a fishpond in south Moravia, Czech Republic, with a minimum infection rate of 0.04%. This alphavirus was never detected in Central Europe before.
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