M. Aikimbayev's Kazakh Scientific Centre for Quarantine and Zoonotic Diseases (KSCQZD), Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Ministry of Education and Science, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Front Public Health. 2021 Feb 12;8:575187. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.575187. eCollection 2020.
West Nile virus is widespread in southern Russia, where the fever appears annually. Since Western Kazakhstan borders on southern Russia, we examined mosquitoes in this region for the presence of West Nile virus. Virus was detected in a small proportion of mosquitoes (3/239 pools) and isolates are related to strains from Volgograd, Russia. A screen for West Nile virus IgG was conducted and ~5% of the local human population tested positive.
西尼罗河病毒在俄罗斯南部广泛传播,那里每年都会出现发热症状。由于西哈萨克斯坦与俄罗斯南部接壤,我们在该地区检查了蚊子是否存在西尼罗河病毒。在一小部分蚊子(239 个蚊群中的 3 个)中检测到了病毒,分离株与俄罗斯伏尔加格勒的株系相关。我们还进行了西尼罗河病毒 IgG 的筛查,约 5%的当地人口检测呈阳性。