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

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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. ; Rosso, R. ; Berger, S. A. ; Campbell, G. L. ; Lanciotti, R. S.
• 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.
• Subjects:
  Aged Antibodies, Viral Brain Female Humans Immunoglobulin M Male Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Rna, Viral Treatment Outcome West Nile Fever West Nile Virus

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 7(4):659-661.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Israel ; New York
• Location:
  Middle East ; North America
• Volume:
  7
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
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