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Isolation of usutu virus in Germany.
Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that emerged 2001 in Austria and caused deaths in wild
birds. In Germany, 70,378 female mosquitoes were captured in 2009 and 2010 and assayed for USUV. Virus was isolated in
cell culture from one pool of Culex pipiens pipiens mosquitoes trapped exclusively in August 2010 in Weinheim, Germany.
Subsequent phylogenetic analysis demonstrated a close relationship between the isolated USUV strain from Germany
and a USUV strain from Austria, which was detected in a dead blackbird in 2004
Detection of Usutu virus infection in a healthy blood donor from south-west Germany, 2012
From September 2011 until November 2012, 31 serum
samples from German patients with clinically sus
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pected acute Usutu virus (USUV) infections were tested
for USUV-specific antibodies. All samples tested nega
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tive. In addition, 4,200 serum samples from healthy
blood donors from south-west Germany were collected
in January 2012 and also analysed for the presence of
specific antibodies. One sample tested positive for
USUV-IgG and -IgM. Thus, the seroprevalence of USUV
antibodies in healthy blood donors from south-west
Germany was low in January 2012