@misc{10481/69128,
year = {2021},
month = {5},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/69128},
abstract = {During recent decades West Nile Virus (WNV) outbreaks have continuously occurred in the Mediterranean area. In August 2020 a new WNV outbreak affected 71 people with meningoencephalitis in Andalusia and six more cases were detected in Extremadura (south-west of Spain), causing a total of eight deaths. The whole genomes of four viruses were obtained and phylogenetically analyzed in the context of recent outbreaks. The Andalusian viral samples belonged to lineage 1 and were relatively similar to those of previous outbreaks which occurred in the Mediterranean region. Here we present a detailed analysis of the outbreak, including an extensive phylogenetic study. As part on this effort, we implemented a local Nextstrain server, which has become a constituent piece of regional epidemiological surveillance, wherein forthcoming genomes of environmental samples or, eventually, future outbreaks, will be included.},
organization = {Instituto de Salud Carlos III

PT17/0009/0006},
organization = {European Commission},
organization = {H2020 "ELIXIR-EXCELERATE fast-track ELIXIR implementation and drive early user exploitation across the life sciences" 

676559},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {West Nile Virus},
keywords = {Outbreak},
keywords = {Meningoencephalitis},
keywords = {Epidemiology},
keywords = {Phylogeny},
keywords = {Whole genome sequencing},
title = {Phylogenetic Analysis of the 2020 West Nile Virus (WNV) Outbreak in Andalusia (Spain)},
doi = {10.3390/v13050836},
author = {Casimiro Soriguer, Carlos S. and Pedrosa Corral, Irene and Guillot Sulay, Vicente and Martínez González, Luis Javier and Navarro Marí, José María and Sanbonmatsu Gámez, Sara},
}