First Autochthonous West Nile Lineage 2 and Usutu Virus Infections in Humans, July to October 2018, Czech Republic

Authors	ZELENÁ Hana KLEINEROVÁ Jana ŠIKUTOVÁ Silvie STRAKOVÁ Petra KOCOURKOVÁ Hana STEBEL Roman HUSA Petr HUSA Petr TESAŘOVÁ Eva LEJDAROVÁ Hana ŠEBESTA Oldřich JURÁŠ Peter CIUPEK Renata MRÁZEK Jakub RUDOLF Ivo
Year of publication	2021
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Pathogens
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Medicine
Citation
Web	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0817/10/6/651/htm
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10060651
Keywords	West Nile virus; Usutu virus; mosquito-borne infections; human
Description	We present epidemiological, clinical and laboratory findings of five Czech patients diagnosed with autochthonous mosquito-borne disease-four patients with confirmed West Nile virus (WNV) and one patient with Usutu virus (USUV) infections, from July to October 2018, including one fatal case due to WNV. This is the first documented human outbreak caused by WNV lineage 2 in the Czech Republic and the first record of a neuroinvasive human disease caused by USUV, which illustrates the simultaneous circulation of WNV and USUV in the country.