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The virus is responsible for outbreaks of viral encephalitis in humans and horses. In Europe,\n                    <jats:italic>Culex pipiens<\/jats:italic>\n                    (Diptera: Culicidae) is considered to be the main vector of\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">WNV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    , but other species such as\n                    <jats:italic>Stegomyia albopicta<\/jats:italic>\n                    (=\n                    <jats:italic>Aedes albopictus<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) (Diptera: Culicidae) may also act as competent vectors of this virus. Since 2008 human cases of\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">WNV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    disease have been reported in northeast Italy. In 2011, new areas of southern Italy became involved and a first outbreak of\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">WNV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    lineage 1 occurred on the island of Sardinia. On the assumption that a potential involvement of\n                    <jats:italic>St. albopicta<\/jats:italic>\n                    in\n                    <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">WNV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                    transmission cannot be excluded, and in order to evaluate the competence of this species for the virus, an experimental infection of an\n                    <jats:italic>St. albopicta<\/jats:italic>\n                    laboratory colony, established from mosquitoes collected in Sardinia, was carried out. The results were compared with those obtained in a colony of the main vector\n                    <jats:italic>Cx. pipiens<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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