Identifying Japanese Encephalitis Virus Using Metatranscriptomic Sequencing, Xinjiang, China

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Yan, Yi ; Zheng, Rongjiong ; Liu, Haizhou ; Wu, Zhiyong ; Hao, Mengchan ; Ma, Li ; Wang, Liying ; Gao, Jie ; Yang, Yining ; Liu, Di ; Lu, Xiaobo
• Description:
  The treat of infectious disease epidemics has increased the critical need for continuous broad-ranging surveillance of pathogens with outbreak potential. Using metatranscriptomic sequencing of blood samples, we identified several cases of Japanese encephalitis virus infection from Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China. This discovery highlights the risk for known viral diseases even in nonendemic areas.
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Encephalitis, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, Japanese Epidemics Humans Virus Diseases
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(6):1298-1300
• Pubmed ID:
  35608868
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9155892
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  China
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:fa38c256b1d5de00d956788041dad9593770084411aa9349a594eaf706e53e8c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/118163/cdc_118163_DS1.pdf
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