| first evidence of west nile virus lineage 2 circulation in turkey. | in august 2014, a west nile virus (wnv) strain belonging to lineage 2 was detected in the brain tissues of a 9 year old mare euthanised after showing severe clinical signs in bursa region, turkey. phylogenetic analyses of 290 bp of ns3 coding region clustered the turkish strain together with the 2010-2012 greek isolates. either igg and igm or igg only wnv antibodies were detected in 2 and 11 horses, respectively, which were in the outbreak surrounding. no wnv rna was detected in pools of 50 indi ... | 2017 | 27033534 |