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Alternative Title:
Emerg Infect Dis
Personal Author:
Giladi, M. ; Metzkor-Cotter, E. ; Martin, D. A. ; Siegman-Igra, Y. ; Korczyn, A. D. ; ... More +
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. ; Less -
Description:
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.
Subject:
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Aged
Antibodies, Viral
Brain
Female
Humans
Immunoglobulin M
Male
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
RNA, Viral
Treatment Outcome
West Nile Fever
West Nile Virus

Source:
Emerg Infect Dis. 7(4):659-661. ;
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Place as Subject:
Israel ; New York ;
Israel ; New York ; Less -
Collection(s):
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:21921b868fc0d2d5191c12fdce9882d3bf5544e4d3c62d06e217d314507eac74
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