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

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% genomi...

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Autores principales: 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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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11585528
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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
author_facet 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
author_sort Giladi, M
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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.
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spelling pubmed-26317562009-05-20 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 Emerg Infect Dis Research Article 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. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001 /pmc/articles/PMC2631756/ /pubmed/11585528 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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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
West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.
title West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.
title_full West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.
title_fullStr West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.
title_full_unstemmed West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.
title_short West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.
title_sort west nile encephalitis in israel, 1999: the new york connection.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11585528
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