Emerg Infect Dis

eid

Emerging Infectious Diseases

1080-60401080-6059

Centers for Disease Control

11266303

2631674

Research Article

Outbreak of West Nile virus infection, Volgograd Region, Russia, 1999.

Platonov

A. E.

plt@online.ruShipulin

G. A.

Shipulina

O. Y.

Tyutyunnik

E. N.

Frolochkina

T. I.

Lanciotti

R. S.

Yazyshina

Platonova

O. V.

Obukhov

I. L.

Zhukov

A. N.

Vengerov

Y. Y.

Pokrovskii

V. I.

Central Institute of Epidemiology, Novogireevskaya Str. 3A, Moscow 111123, Russia.

Jan-Feb2001

71128132

From July 25 to October 1, 1999, 826 patients were admitted to Volgograd Region, Russia, hospitals with acute aseptic meningoencephalitis, meningitis, or fever consistent with arboviral infection. Of 84 cases of meningoencephalitis, 40 were fatal. Fourteen brain specimens were positive in reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction assays, confirming the presence of West Nile/Kunjin virus.