West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.

Giladi, M.; Metzkor-Cotter, E.; Martin, D. A.; Siegman-Igra, Y.; Korczyn, A. D.; Rosso, R.; Berger, S. A.; Campbell, G. L.; Lanciotti, R. S.

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West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.

Published Date:

2001 Jul-Aug

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Emerg Infect Dis. 7(4):659-661.

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Giladi, M. ; Metzkor-Cotter, E. ; Martin, D. A. ; Siegman-Igra, Y. ; Korczyn, A. D. ; ... More ▼

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We describe two cases of West Nile (WN) encephalitis in a married couple in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1999. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction performed on a brain specimen from the husband detected a WN viral strain nearly identical to avian strains recovered in Israel in 1998 (99.9% genomic sequence homology) and in New York in 1999 (99.8%). This result supports the hypothesis that the 1999 WN virus epidemic in the United States originated from the introduction of a strain that had been circulating in Israel.

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