AUTHOR=Holicki Cora M. , Bergmann Felicitas , Stoek Franziska , Schulz Ansgar , Groschup Martin H. , Ziegler Ute , Sadeghi Balal TITLE=Expedited retrieval of high-quality Usutu virus genomes via Nanopore sequencing with and without target enrichment JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1044316 DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2022.1044316 ISSN=1664-302X ABSTRACT=
Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic virus and one of the causes of flavivirus encephalitis in birds and occasionally in humans. USUV rapidly disperses in a susceptible host and vector environment, as is the case in South and Central Europe. However, compared to other flaviviruses, USUV has received less research attention and there is therefore limited access to whole-genome sequences and also to in-depth phylogenetic and phylodynamic analyses. To ease future molecular studies, this study compares first- (partial sequencing