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As at 12 November 2018, an outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) was responsible for 139 WNV infection cases in Israel. Here, we characterise the epidemiology of the outbreak and demonstrate that only WNV lineage I was circulating in mosquitoes and responsible for WNV infection in humans. This suggests that the concurrence of the outbreak in Israel with WNV outbreaks in several European countries is not due to a common, more virulent WNV genotype.

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Epidemiologic and phylogenetic analysis of the 2018 West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in Israel demonstrates human infection of WNV lineage I
<p class="citation"> <span>Citation style for this article:</span> <span class="meta-value authors"> <a href="/search?value1=Yaniv+Lustig&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Lustig Yaniv</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Ruslan+Gosinov&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Gosinov Ruslan</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Neta+Zuckerman&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Zuckerman Neta</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Yael+Glazer&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Glazer Yael</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Laor+Orshan&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Orshan Laor</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Danit+Sofer&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Sofer Danit</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Eli+Schwartz&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Schwartz Eli</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Gili+Schvartz&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Schvartz Gili</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Yigal+Farnoushi&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Farnoushi Yigal</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Avishai+Lublin&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Lublin Avishai</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Oran+Erster&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Erster Oran</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Uri+Shalom&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Shalom Uri</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Tamar+Yeger&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Yeger Tamar</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Orna+Mor&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Mor Orna</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Emilia+Anis&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Anis Emilia</a>, <a href="/search?value1=Ella+Mendelson&option1=author&noRedirect=true" class="nonDisambigAuthorLink">Mendelson Ella</a></span>. Epidemiologic and phylogenetic analysis of the 2018 West Nile virus (WNV) outbreak in Israel demonstrates human infection of WNV lineage I. <a href="/content/ecdc">Euro Surveill.</a> 2019;24(1):pii=1800662. <a href="https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.1.1800662" title="doi link" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.1.1800662</a> <span class="ES_Article_citation"> <span class="generated">Received</span>: 06 Dec 2018;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span class="generated">Accepted</span>: 20 Dec 2018 </span> </p>
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