Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler

We describe a fatal case of Japanese encephalitis virus infection following short-term travel to Thailand. Viral RNA was detected in urine and whole blood out to 26 and 28 days, respectively, after the onset of symptoms. Live virus was isolated from a urine specimen from day 14.

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Autores principales: Huang, G Khai Lin, Tio, Shio Yen, Caly, Leon, Nicholson, Suellen, Thevarajan, Irani, Papadakis, Georgina, Catton, Mike, Tong, Steven Y C, Druce, Julian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5714136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29226169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx203
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author Huang, G Khai Lin
Tio, Shio Yen
Caly, Leon
Nicholson, Suellen
Thevarajan, Irani
Papadakis, Georgina
Catton, Mike
Tong, Steven Y C
Druce, Julian
author_facet Huang, G Khai Lin
Tio, Shio Yen
Caly, Leon
Nicholson, Suellen
Thevarajan, Irani
Papadakis, Georgina
Catton, Mike
Tong, Steven Y C
Druce, Julian
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description We describe a fatal case of Japanese encephalitis virus infection following short-term travel to Thailand. Viral RNA was detected in urine and whole blood out to 26 and 28 days, respectively, after the onset of symptoms. Live virus was isolated from a urine specimen from day 14.
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spelling pubmed-57141362017-12-08 Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler Huang, G Khai Lin Tio, Shio Yen Caly, Leon Nicholson, Suellen Thevarajan, Irani Papadakis, Georgina Catton, Mike Tong, Steven Y C Druce, Julian Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We describe a fatal case of Japanese encephalitis virus infection following short-term travel to Thailand. Viral RNA was detected in urine and whole blood out to 26 and 28 days, respectively, after the onset of symptoms. Live virus was isolated from a urine specimen from day 14. Oxford University Press 2017-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5714136/ /pubmed/29226169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx203 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Brief Report
Huang, G Khai Lin
Tio, Shio Yen
Caly, Leon
Nicholson, Suellen
Thevarajan, Irani
Papadakis, Georgina
Catton, Mike
Tong, Steven Y C
Druce, Julian
Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler
title Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler
title_full Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler
title_fullStr Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler
title_full_unstemmed Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler
title_short Prolonged Detection of Japanese Encephalitis Virus in Urine and Whole Blood in a Returned Short-term Traveler
title_sort prolonged detection of japanese encephalitis virus in urine and whole blood in a returned short-term traveler
topic Brief Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5714136/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29226169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx203
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