New Detection of Locally Acquired Japanese Encephalitis Virus Using Clinical Metagenomics, New South Wales, Australia

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Maamary, Joel ; Maddocks, Susan ; Barnett, Yael ; Wong, Stephen ; Rodriguez, Michael ; Hueston, Linda ; Jeoffreys, Neisha ; Eden, John-Sebastian ; Dwyer, Dominic E. ; Floyd, Tony ; Plit, Marshall ; Kok, Jen ; Brew, Bruce
• Description:
  In the context of an emerging Japanese encephalitis outbreak within Australia, we describe a novel locally acquired case in New South Wales. A man in his 70s had rapidly progressive, fatal meningoencephalitis, diagnosed as caused by Japanese encephalitis virus by RNA-based metagenomic next-generation sequencing performed on postmortem brain tissue.
• Subjects:
  Brain Encephalitis, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, Japanese Humans Male Metagenomics
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2023; 29(3):627-630
• Pubmed ID:
  36823673
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9973708
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Genre:
  Dispatch
• Place as Subject:
  New South Wales, Australia
• Volume:
  29
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:eebe60646fcc2a4f8f87314ac871ade6f1d5aa93a020d8fe6fb374845b4106dc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/127619/cdc_127619_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.21 MB ]