West Nile Virus Detection in Urine

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Tonry, Jessica H. ; Brown, Craig B. ; Cropp, Cecil B. ; Co, Juliene K.G. ; Bennett, Shannon N. ; Nerurkar, Vivek R. ; Kuberski, Timothy ; Gubler, Duane J.
• Description:
  We report West Nile virus (WNV) RNA in urine collected from a patient with encephalitis 8 days after symptom onset. Viral RNA was detected by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequence and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the PCR product to have > or = 99% similarity to the WNV strain NY 2000-crow3356.
• Subjects:
  Aged Antibodies, Viral Cluster Analysis Dispatch Humans Male Phylogeny Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rna, Viral Sequence Alignment Sequence Analysis, DNA West Nile Fever West Nile Virus

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 11(8):1294-1296.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  G12 RR003061/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States ; P20 RR018727/RR/NCRR NIH HHS/United States ; U90/CCU916969/CC/ODCDC CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5745231c9cd07d2acc514b24643656742168b7cdc3f52dcad4efa1f486d25ac5
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14763/cdc_14763_DS1.pdf
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