ReviewEpidemiology and infection2019
Usutu virus: A new threat?
Review in Epidemiology and infection, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 115 papers.
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115 citing papers in PubMed, 159 citations in OpenAlex.
- Early-warning surveillance of West Nile and Usutu viruses in wetland and larval habitat waters and in mosquito excreta using digital PCR.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- A versatile fluorescent reporter for Usutu virus drug screening and infection tracking.PNAS nexus · 2026Article
- Widespread circulation of West Nile and Usutu viruses in sedentary and migratory avifauna: A two-year study (2024-2025) of active surveillance in South of France.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Shared viral burdens: Molecular evidence of Usutu virus infection and multi-arbovirus exposure in migrant and resident birds at wintering locations in Nigeria.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- A highly sensitive amplicon sequencing workflow for genomic surveillance of Usutu virus.Virology journal · 2026Article
- Patterns of emergence and circulation of West Nile Virus in Algeria.Nature communications · 2026Article
- A yellow fever 17D and Usutu virus chimera with rationally designed mutations in the envelope protein is lethal in an IfnarVirology journal · 2026Article
- First Usutu Virus Infection in an Asymptomatic Blood Donor in Greece.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
- Pathogens of the human central nervous system-the major viral pathogens.Journal of neurovirology · 2026Review
- The Second Silent Pandemic: Why Arboviruses Demand an Orchestrated Global Health Response.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Susceptibility of wild and domestic songbirds to Usutu virus.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- First Detection of Usutu Virus in Harbor Seals (Viruses · 2026Article
- North American Culex pipiens mosquitoes are competent for Usutu virus transmission.Npj viruses · 2026Article
- First detection of Usutu virus in wild birds in Denmark, 2024.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Auto-Abs against type I IFNs: Strong, common, and global determinants of severe arboviral diseases.Journal of human immunity · 2026Review
- First report of Usutu virus fatal infections in Chilean tinamous (Nothoprocta perdicaria), brahminy starlings (Sturnia pagodarum), and multiple other bird species in zoological gardens and wildlife in the Czech Republic.One health outlook · 2026Article
- Emergence of Usutu virus in Southern Italy: phylogenetic profiling of potential introduction and dissemination routes.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- [Risk of emergence of mosquito-borne arboviral diseases in Morocco: literature review].Medecine tropicale et sante internationale · 2025Review
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- From Bird Viremia to Bird Surveillance: Identifiability in a Multiscale Vector-Borne Model of Usutu Virus Infection.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
55 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Usutu virus (USUV) is an emerging arbovirus that was first isolated in South Africa in 1959. This Flavivirus is maintained in the environment through a typical enzootic cycle involving mosquitoes and birds. USUV has spread to a large part of the European continent over the two decades mainly leading to substantial avian mortalities with a significant recrudescence of bird infections recorded throughout Europe within the few last years. USUV infection in humans is considered to be most often asymptomatic or to cause mild clinical signs. Nonetheless, a few cases of neurological complications such as encephalitis or meningoencephalitis have been reported. USUV and West Nile virus (WNV) share many features, like a close phylogenetic relatedness and a similar ecology, with co-circulation frequently observed in nature. However, USUV has been much less studied and in-depth comparisons of the biology of these viruses are yet rare. In this review, we discuss the main body of knowledge regarding USUV and compare it with the literature on WNV, addressing in particular virological and clinical aspects, and pointing data gaps.
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