Overwintering of Uranotaenia Unguiculata Adult Females in Central Europe: A Possible Way of Persistence of the Putative New Lineage of West Nile Virus?

Ivo Rudolf; Oldřich Šebesta; Petra Straková; Lenka Betášová; Hana blažejová; Kristýna VEnclíková; Bernhard Seidel; Sandor Tóth; Zdeněk Hubálek; Francis Schaffner

doi:10.2987/8756-971X-31.4.364

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Ivo Rudolf,^1,2 Oldřich Šebesta,¹ Petra Straková,^1,2 Lenka Betášová,¹ Hana blažejová,¹ Kristýna VEnclíková,^1,2 Bernhard Seidel,³ Sandor Tóth,⁴ Zdeněk Hubálek,^1,2 Francis Schaffner⁵

¹Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences, v.v.i., Kvetna 8, 603 65, Brno, Czech Republic.
²Masaryk University, Department of Experimental Biology, Kotlarska 2, 611 37, Brno, Czech Republic.
³Technical Office of Ecology and Landscape Assessment, Persenbeug, Austria.
⁴Independent researcher, 8420 Zirc, Hungary.
⁵Avia-GIS, Zoersel, Belgium.

Abstract

We report the overwintering of Uranotaenia unguiculata adult females in Central Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria). This finding suggests a potential mode of winter persistence of putative novel lineage of West Nile virus in the temperate regions of Europe.

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Ivo Rudolf, Oldřich Šebesta, Petra Straková, Lenka Betášová, Hana blažejová, Kristýna VEnclíková, Bernhard Seidel, Sandor Tóth, Zdeněk Hubálek, and Francis Schaffner "Overwintering of Uranotaenia Unguiculata Adult Females in Central Europe: A Possible Way of Persistence of the Putative New Lineage of West Nile Virus?," Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 31(4), 364-365, (1 December 2015). https://doi.org/10.2987/8756-971X-31.4.364

Published: 1 December 2015