PEŇAZZIOVÁ, Katarína - KORYTÁR, Ľuboš - PASTOREK, Patrik - PISTL, Juraj - RUSŇÁKOVÁ, Mária - SZEMES, Tomáš - ČABANOVÁ, Viktória - LIČKOVÁ, Martina - BORŠOVÁ, Kristína - KLEMPA, Boris - CSANK, Tomáš. Genetic characterization of a neurovirulent West Nile Virus variant associated with a fatal great grey owl infection. In Viruses. ISSN 1999-4915, 2021, vol. 13, no. 4, art. no. 699, p. [1-10]. (2020: 5.048 - IF, 5.127 - IF 5y, 85 - H-index, 1.828 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q2

PEŇAZZIOVÁ, Katarína - KORYTÁR, Ľuboš - PASTOREK, Patrik - PISTL, Juraj - RUSŇÁKOVÁ, Mária - SZEMES, Tomáš - ČABANOVÁ, Viktória - LIČKOVÁ, Martina - BORŠOVÁ, Kristína - KLEMPA, Boris - CSANK, Tomáš. Genetic characterization of a neurovirulent West Nile Virus variant associated with a fatal great grey owl infection. In Viruses. ISSN 1999-4915, 2021, vol. 13, no. 4, art. no. 699, p. [1-10]. (2020: 5.048 - IF, 5.127 - IF 5y, 85 - H-index, 1.828 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q2 - JCR Best Q)

Basic data
OCA1. Surname awarded to the assessed person	Csank
OCA2. Name awarded to the assessed person	Tomáš
OCA3. Degrees awarded to the assessed person	Assoc. prof. , DVM, PhD
OCA4. Hyperlink to the entry of the person in the Register of university staff	https://www.portalvs.sk/regzam/detail/6133
OCA5. Area of assessment	study programme microbiology and immunology · III. degree
OCA6. Category of the research/artistic/other output	scientific output
OCA7. Year of publication of the research/artistic/other output	2021
OCA8. ID of the record in the Central Registry of Publication Activity (CRPA) or the Central Registry of Artistic Activity (CRAA)	253111
OCA9. Hyperlink to the record in CRPA or CRAA	https://app.crepc.sk/?fn=detailBiblioFormChildUIL7A&sid=15C3818DA058C71BB77951BED5&seo=CREP%C4%8C-detail-%C4%8Cl%C3%A1nok
Characteristics of the output that is not registered in CRPA or CRAA
OCA10. Hyperlink to the record in another publicly accessible register, catalogue of research/ artistic/other outputs	https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105163531&origin=resultslist
OCA11. Characteristics of the output in the format of the CRPA or the CRAA bibliographic record, if the output is not available in a publicly accessible register or catalogue of outputs	PEŇAZZIOVÁ, Katarína - KORYTÁR, Ľuboš - PASTOREK, Patrik - PISTL, Juraj - RUSŇÁKOVÁ, Mária - SZEMES, Tomáš - ČABANOVÁ, Viktória - LIČKOVÁ, Martina - BORŠOVÁ, Kristína - KLEMPA, Boris - CSANK, Tomáš. Genetic characterization of a neurovirulent West Nile Virus variant associated with a fatal great grey owl infection. In Viruses. ISSN 1999-4915, 2021, vol. 13, no. 4, art. no. 699, p. [1-10]. (2020: 5.048 - IF, 5.127 - IF 5y, 85 - H-index, 1.828 - SJR, Q1 - SJR Best Q, Q2 - JCR Best Q)
OCA12. Type of the output (if the output is not registered in CRPA or CRAA)	article
OCA13. Hyperlink to the webpage where the output is available (full text, other documentation, etc.)	https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/4/699
OCA14. Characteristics of the author's contribution	The author is the bearer of ideas and the main researcher of all research in the field.
OCA15. Annotation of the output with contextual information concerning the description of creative process and the content of the research/artistic/other activity, etc.	This study reports on a fatal case of a captive great grey owl infected with the West Nile virus (WNV) in the zoological garden Košice, eastern Slovakia (Central Europe). The novel isolate is genetically closer to Hungarian, Greek, and Bulgarian strains from the central/southern European clade of lineage 2 than to the strains previously isolated in Slovakia. Subsequent serological investigation of the captive owls revealed additional seropositive animals, indicating local WNV transmission. Although no WNV-positive mosquitoes were found, the presence of the WNV principal vector Culex pipiens complex together with the described fatal case and further serological findings indicate an endemic focus of bird-neurovirulent WNV variant in the area.
Other data
OCA16. Annotation of the output in English	This study reports on a fatal case of a captive great grey owl infected with the West Nile virus (WNV) in the zoological garden Košice, eastern Slovakia (Central Europe). The novel isolate is genetically closer to Hungarian, Greek, and Bulgarian strains from the central/southern European clade of lineage 2 than to the strains previously isolated in Slovakia. Subsequent serological investigation of the captive owls revealed additional seropositive animals, indicating local WNV transmission. Although no WNV-positive mosquitoes were found, the presence of the WNV principal vector Culex pipiens complex together with the described fatal case and further serological findings indicate an endemic focus of bird-neurovirulent WNV variant in the area.
OCA17. List of maximum 5 most significant citations corresponding to the output	1. Hernandez-Colina A., Seechurn N., Costa T., Lopez J., Baylis M., Hesson J.C. Surveillance of Culex spp. vectors and zoonotic arboviruses at a zoo in the United Kingdom 2024 Heliyon, 10: 4, e26477 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e26477
OCA18. Characteristics of the output's impact on socio-economic practice	Important result is, that the WNV isolate carries NS3-249P, a molecular virulence determinant associated with higher neurovirulence, which has not previously been observed in Slovakia.
OCA19. Characteristics of the output and related activities' impact on the educational process	The obtained data and the used methods are implemented in the education of postgraduate students and in the education of veterinarians.