Novel Orthobunyavirus Identified in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of a Ugandan Child With Severe Encephalopathy

A Ugandan child with an unexplained encephalitis was investigated using viral metagenomics. Several sequences from all segments of a novel orthobunyavirus were found. The S-segment, used for typing, showed 41% amino acid diversity to its closest relative. The virus was named Ntwetwe virus, after the...

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Autores principales: Edridge, Arthur W D, Deijs, Martin, Namazzi, Ruth, Cristella, Cosimo, Jebbink, Maarten F, Maurer, Irma, Kootstra, Neeltje A, Buluma, Linda R, van Woensel, Job B M, de Jong, Menno D, Idro, Richard, Boele van Hensbroek, Michael, van der Hoek, Lia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Brief Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29893821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciy486

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