West Nile Virus Lineage 2 in Horses and Other Animals with Neurologic Disease, South Africa, 2008–2015

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Venter, Marietjie ; Pretorius, Marthi ; Fuller, James A. ; Botha, Elizabeth ; Rakgotho, Mpho ; Stivaktas, Voula ; Weyer, Camilla ; Romito, Marco ; Williams, June
• Description:
  During 2008-2015 in South Africa, we conducted West Nile virus surveillance in 1,407 animals with neurologic disease and identified mostly lineage 2 cases in horses (7.4%, 79/1,069), livestock (1.5%, 2/132), and wildlife (0.5%, 1/206); 35% were fatal. Geographic correlation of horse cases with seropositive veterinarians suggests disease in horses can predict risk in humans.
• Subjects:
  Animals Antibodies, Viral Culex Dispatch Epidemiological Monitoring Horse Diseases Horses / Virology Humans Mosquito Vectors Nervous System Diseases Prevalence Prospective Studies RNA, Viral Seasons Survival Analysis Veterinarians West Nile Virus

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 23(12):2060-2064.
• Pubmed ID:
  29148375
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5708237
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  South Africa
• Volume:
  23
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6e44ee7f7c218cb9a9f3adcb71e3a6e1e201a91ce47bca221692c0d70a69b1fc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/50180/cdc_50180_DS1.pdf
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