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A serosurvey of Usutu virus infection and detection of Borrelia myiamotoi in wild birds on the Slovak republic territory

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Identifier08/2016
Funding schemeUVMP Internal grant agency
Principal investigator at UVLFKorytár Ľuboš, doc. MVDr., PhD.
Project duration01.11.2016 – 31.10.2017
The main objective of the project is to conduct a pilot study in a population of wild birds in the Slovak Republic with the intention to detect Usutu virus (USUV) and Borrelia myiamotoi infection. The presence of specific antibodies against USUV will be detected serologically using the virus neutralisation test (VNT) and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) will be used to detect B. myiamotoi in the blood of birds. This will be the first ever targeted study of its kind in Slovakia aimed at the detection of these pathogens in birds. USUV and B. myiamotoi are vector-borne pathogens of wild and domesticated bird species, and their zoonotic potential is not negligible. The results from monitoring the occurrence of USUV and B. myiamotoi will be important from a public health perspective as well as from a conservation and breeding perspective.

Partners

  • University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice (Project coordinator)
  • Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Project outputs

  1. PAVUROVÁ, Patrícia - KORYTÁR, Ľuboš - CSANK, Tomáš - OLEKŠÁK, Milan - FULÍN, Miroslav. Zmeny abundancie vtáčieho spoločenstva drienovskej mokrade – populačná a virologická štúdia [Changes in bird communities of drienovská mokraď wetland – a population and virological study]. In: ŠVOČ : konferencia. Študentská vedecká konferencia - ŠVOČ, 18. apríl 2018, Košice : zborník abstraktov 61. ročníka. 1. vyd. Košice : UVLF, 2018. ISBN 978-80-8077-577-3, s. 23-24.

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  2. ŠPAKOVÁ, Justína - CSANK, Tomáš - KORYTÁR, Ľuboš. Výskyt Tribeč vírusu (rod orbivirus, séroskupina great island vírus) u vtákov a hospodárskych zvierat na Slovensku [The prevalence of Tribeč virus infection (genus orbivirus, great island virus serogroup) in birds and livestock animals in Slovakia]. In: ŠVOČ : konferencia. Študentská vedecká konferencia - ŠVOČ, 18. apríl 2018, Košice : zborník abstraktov 61. ročníka. 1. vyd. Košice : UVLF, 2018. ISBN 978-80-8077-577-3, s. 33-34.

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  3. KORYTÁR, Ľuboš - CSANK, Tomáš - POŠIVÁKOVÁ, Terézia - PAVUROVÁ, Patrícia. Sérologický monitoring West Nile vírusovej infekcie u spevavcov Drienovskej mokrade [Serological monitoring of the West Nile vitus infection in passerine birds on Drienovska mokraď wetland]. In: Interaktívna konferencia mladých vedcov 2018 : Zborník abstraktov. 1. vyd. Bratislava : OZ Preveda, 2018. ISBN 978-80-972360-2-1, online, s. [1-1].

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  4. CSANK, Tomáš - KORYTÁR, Ľuboš - POŠIVÁKOVÁ, Terézia - BAKONYI, Tamás - PISTL, Juraj - CSANÁDY, Alexander. Surveillance on antibodies against West Nile virus, Usutu virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus and Tribe virus in wild birds in Drienovska wetland, Slovakia. In: Biologia. 2019. ISSN 0006-3088, Vol. 74, no. 7(2019), p. 813-820. (2019: 0.811 - IF, 35 - H-index, 0.875 - IF 5y, 0.265 - SJR, Q3 - SJR Best Q, Q4 - JCR Best Q, 0.192 - ABDC).

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