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

Emerging infectious diseases ·Vol. 7 ·No. 4 ·2001-00-00 ·Pages 659-61

Giladi M, Metzkor-Cotter E, Martin DA, Siegman-Igra Y, Korczyn AD, Rosso R, Berger SA, Campbell GL, Lanciotti RS

Abstract

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.

MeSH Terms
Aged Antibodies, Viral/blood,cerebrospinal fluid Brain/virology Female Humans Immunoglobulin M/blood,cerebrospinal fluid Israel Male New York/epidemiology RNA, Viral/analysis Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Treatment Outcome West Nile Fever/blood,cerebrospinal fluid,epidemiology,immunology,virology West Nile virus/classification,genetics,immunology,isolation & purification
Chemicals
Antibodies, Viral Immunoglobulin M RNA, Viral
Authors & Affiliations
9 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Giladi M
Bernard Pridan Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel. giladi@tasmc.health.gov.il
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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Article Info
Journal
Emerging infectious diseases
Abbr.
Emerg Infect Dis
ISSN
1080-6040
DOI
10.3201/eid0704.010410
Email
giladi@tasmc.health.gov.il
Published
2001-00-00
Pages
659-61
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
9508155
PMCID
PMC2631756
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.3201/eid0704.010410 PMC Full Text View journal details
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