Group IV Getah Virus in Culex Mosquitoes, Malaysia

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 475 - 477
• Main Authors: Sam, Sing-Sin, Mohamed-Romai-Noor, Noor-Adila, Teoh, Boon-Teong, Hamim, Zur-Raiha, Ng, Hoi-Ying, Abd-Jamil, Juraina, Khor, Chee-Sieng, Hassan, Sharifah-Syed, Ahmad, Hamdan, AbuBakar, Sazaly
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.02.2022; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Alphavirus; Animals; Culex; Culicidae; emerging; Epidemics; Genetic aspects; Genomes; Getah virus; Group IV Getah Virus in Culex Mosquitoes, Malaysia; Health aspects; Hogs; Identification and classification; Infections; infectious diseases; Insects as carriers of disease; Malaysia - epidemiology; Mosquitoes; Mosquitoes as carriers of disease; Phylogeny; Public health; Research Letter; RNA viruses; Statistics; Surveillance; tropical; Viruses; Malaysia; Selangor Malaysia; Sri Lanka; China; Japan; Kuala Lumpur Malaysia; Thailand; Malaya; mosquitoes; tropical; viruses; vector-borne infections; Getah virus; infectious diseases; Malaysia; alphavirus; evolution; emerging; arbovirus
• ISSN: 1080-6040; 1080-6059; 1080-6059
• DOI: 10.3201/eid2802.204887

A new Getah virus (GETV) strain, B254, was isolated from Culex fuscocephalus mosquitoes captured at Mount Ophir, Malaysia, in 2012. Phylogenetic analyses revealed that GETV B254 is distinct from the old Malaysia GETV MM2021 strain but closely related to group IV GETV from Russia (LEIV16275Mag), China (YN12031), and Thailand (GETV/SW/Thailand/2017).