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JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ENTOMOLOGY
Volume 51, Issue 6, Pages 1264-1267Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1603/ME14046
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Tahyna virus; Orthobunyavirus; mosquito; Anopheles hyrcanus
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- EU [FP7-261504 EDENext]
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Two strains of Tahyna virus (TAHV; Orthobunyavirus, Bunyaviridae) were isolated from 4,568 (92 pools) female Anopheles hyrcanus Pallas (Diptera, Culicidae) mosquitoes collected on the fishponds in South Moravia (Czechland, central Europe) during July-August 2013. This is the first isolation of TAHV from An. hyrcanus in Europe. An. hyrcanus is a species new to Czechland since 2007; its population density was very high in the year 2013 at these ponds. The virus isolation procedure was based on intracerebral inoculation of newborn mice; moreover, the positive pools were also tested by polymerase chain reaction and found to contain TAHV RNA. An. hyrcanus, feeding preferentially on mammals including humans, may be a new potential vector for TAHV in Europe.
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