Kubacki, Jakub and Flacio, Eleonora and Qi, Weihong and Guidi, Valeria and Tonolla, Mauro and Fraefel, Cornel (2020) Viral Metagenomic Analysis of Aedes albopictus Mosquitos from Southern Switzerland. Viruses, 12 (9).
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A metagenomic study was performed on 498 female and 40 male Aedes albopictus mosquitos collected in August and September 2019 in Ticino, a region in southern Switzerland, to address the question regarding the risk of the local transmission of zoonotic viruses. A total of 13 viruses from seven different virus families and several unclassified viral taxa were identified. Reads of insect-specific flaviviruses were present in all pools, and a complete genome of aedes flavivirus was assembled and phylogenetically analysed. The most abundant virus was Wenzhou sobemo-like virus, assembled from 1.3 × 10^5 to 3.6 × 10^6 reads in each pool. In a pool of male mosquitos, a complete genome of aedes Iflavi-like virus was detected and phylogenetically analysed. Most importantly, genomes of human pathogenic viruses were not found. This is the first study to determine the virome of Ae. albopictus from Switzerland and forms a baseline for future longitudinal investigations concerning the potential role of Ae. albopictus as a vector of clinically relevant viruses.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Biological Sciences > Microbiology > Virology |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Istituto microbiologia |
| Depositing User: | Valeria Guidi |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Aug 2020 11:39 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2021 09:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/11918 |
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