ArticleNpj viruses2026
North American Culex pipiens mosquitoes are competent for Usutu virus transmission.
Article in Npj viruses, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Susceptibility of wild and domestic songbirds to Usutu virus.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2026Article
- Emergence of Usutu virus in Southern Italy: phylogenetic profiling of potential introduction and dissemination routes.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- From Bird Viremia to Bird Surveillance: Identifiability in a Multiscale Vector-Borne Model of Usutu Virus Infection.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Usutu virus (USUV, Flaviviridae) is a mosquito-borne, neuroinvasive flavivirus that is maintained in a transmission cycle between Culex spp. mosquitoes and passerine birds. USUV shares close ecological and antigenic similarity to West Nile virus (WNV). Our study focused on North American Cx. tarsalis and Cx. pipiens, both important in WNV transmission. At day 10, we found that Cx. pipiens were competent for USUV while Cx. tarsalis had limited evidence for transmission. Additionally, Cx. pipiens transmission significantly increased by day 21 to 33%. We found the minimum threshold for infection of Cx. pipiens to be 5 log
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