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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Burt, Felicity J. ; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A. ; Leman, Patricia A. ; Anthony, Fiona S. ; Gibson, Georgina V.F. ; ... More +
Burt, Felicity J. ; Grobbelaar, Antoinette A. ; Leman, Patricia A. ; Anthony, Fiona S. ; Gibson, Georgina V.F. ; Swanepoel, Robert Less -
Description:
Phylogenetic relationships were examined for 29 southern African West Nile virus (formal name West Nile virus [WNV]) isolates from various sources in four countries from 1958 to 2001. In addition, sequence data were retrieved from GenBank for another 23 WNV isolates and Kunjin and Japanese encephalitis viruses. All isolates belonged to two lineages. Lineage 1 isolates were from central and North Africa, Europe, Israel, and North America; lineage 2 isolates were from central and southern Africa and Madagascar. No strict correlation existed between grouping and source of virus isolate, pathogenicity, geographic distribution, or year of isolation. Some southern African isolates have been associated with encephalitis in a human, a horse, and a dog and with fatal hepatitis in a human and death of an ostrich chick.
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Aedes
Animals
Birds
Culex
Dogs
Evolution, Molecular
Horses
Humans
Phylogeny
Research
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
West Nile Fever
West Nile Virus

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 8(8):820-826.
Document Type:
Journal Article
Place as Subject:
Africa, Southern
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
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