ReviewViruses2022
Human Usutu Virus Infections in Europe: A New Risk on Horizon?
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64 citing papers in PubMed.
- Differential properties of NS1 glycoproteins in West Nile and Usutu viruses.Emerging microbes & infections · 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
- Usutu virus promotes West Nile virus replication in Culex pipiens biotype molestus during simultaneous and sequential co-infections.PLoS pathogens · 2026Article
- Arbovirus Seropositivity in UK Zoo-Housed Birds, with Evidence for Autochthonous Exposure to Batai Virus.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- A highly sensitive amplicon sequencing workflow for genomic surveillance of Usutu virus.Virology journal · 2026Article
- A yellow fever 17D and Usutu virus chimera with rationally designed mutations in the envelope protein is lethal in an IfnarVirology journal · 2026Article
- Lost in translation: interferon-stimulated genes targeting flavivirus protein synthesis.Journal of virology · 2026Review
- First Usutu Virus Infection in an Asymptomatic Blood Donor in Greece.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2026Article
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- Protein Large Language Models Can PredictACS omega · 2026Article
- Susceptibility of wild and domestic songbirds to Usutu virus.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Integrated vector and arbovirus surveillance in Cyprus: first reports of Usutu virus and Culex pipiens bioform diversity highlight potential for zoonotic arbovirus transmission.Parasites & vectors · 2026Article
- First Detection of Usutu Virus in Harbor Seals (Viruses · 2026Article
- A blood safety perspective on emerging arboviral infections in the United Kingdom.Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) · 2026Review
- 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
- Phylodynamic analyses reveal persistence and extensive intermixing of Usutu virus in the Netherlands.Virus evolution · 2026Article
- Severe Usutu Virus Encephalitis Treated With Corticosteroids: A Case Report.Case reports in infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Europe Faces Multiple Arboviral Threats in 2025.Viruses · 2025Review
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Abstract
The Usutu virus (USUV), a neurotropic mosquito-borne flavivirus discovered in 1959 in South Africa, has spread over the last twenty years across the European continent. This virus follows an enzootic cycle involving mosquitoes and birds. This caused epizootics with significant bird mortality in Europe in 2016 and 2018. It can also occasionally infect humans and other mammals, including horses and bats, which act as incidental or dead-end hosts. The zoonotic risk associated with this succession of avian epizootics in Europe deserves attention, even if, to date, human cases remain exceptional. Human infection is most often asymptomatic or responsible for mild clinical symptoms. However, human Usutu infections have also been associated with neurological disorders, such as encephalitis and meningoencephalitis. One of the major complexities of the study of USUV pathogenesis is the presence of a great diversity of lineages which could co-circulate spatiotemporally. In this review we discuss several aspects of the circulation of Usutu virus in humans in Europe, the neurological disorders associated, involved viral lineages, and the issues and questions raised by their circulation.
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