OIE Reference Laboratory for West Nile disease, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e Molise 'G. Caporale', Teramo, Italy.
Epidemiol Infect. 2013 Nov;141(11):2313-6. doi: 10.1017/S0950268812003147. Epub 2013 Jan 24.
West Nile virus (WNV) strains belonging to lineage 2 were detected and isolated from the tissues of a goshawk and two carrion crows in Sardinia in August 2012. According to NS3 sequence analysis, the Sardinian isolates shared a high level of similarity with those of Italian lineage 2 strains which circulated in 2011 and with the homologous sequence of the 2004 Hungarian isolate. Following the human fatality reported in 2011 in Olbia, this study is the first to report the spread and enzootic circulation of WNV lineage 2 in Sardinia.
2012 年 8 月,在撒丁岛,从一只苍鹰和两只食腐乌鸦的组织中检测并分离到属于 2 谱系的西尼罗河病毒(WNV)株。根据 NS3 序列分析,撒丁岛分离株与 2011 年流行的意大利 2 谱系株以及 2004 年匈牙利分离株的同源序列具有高度相似性。继 2011 年在奥尔比亚报告的人类死亡病例后,本研究首次报告了 WNV 2 谱系在撒丁岛的传播和地方流行。