Publications by authors named "Frantisek Rettich"
Here, we provide the first mass molecular screening of medically important mosquitoes for Bartonella species using multiple genetic markers. We examined a total of 72,115 mosquito specimens, morphologically attributed to Aedes vexans (61,050 individuals), Culex pipiens (10,484 individuals) and species of the Anopheles maculipennis complex (581 individuals) for Bartonella spp. The initial screening yielded 63 Bartonella-positive A.
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- Usutu virus (USUV) is a flavivirus from Africa that spreads through mosquitoes and affects various bird species, leading to bird mortality, particularly blackbirds in Europe.
- A study in the Czech Republic detected USUV RNA in blackbirds and mosquitoes, isolating 10 new strains from dead blackbirds.
- Multiple USUV lineages were found, with one lineage (Europe 3) linked to higher blackbird deaths in Prague in 2018, while lineage Europe 2 was found in mosquitoes from a region with no reported bird deaths.
We report the distribution of mosquitoes of the maculipennis complex in two distinct areas of the Czech Republic (Bohemia and South Moravia) and in one locality of neighbouring Slovakia with emphasis on the detection of the newly described cryptic species Anopheles daciae (Linton, Nicolescu & Harbach, 2004). A total of 691 mosquitoes were analysed using a species-specific multiplex PCR assay to differentiate between the members of the maculipennis complex. In the Czech Republic, we found Anopheles maculipennis (with a prevalence rate of 1.
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