TY - JOUR
T1 - West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999
T2 - The New York connection
AU - Giladi, Michael
AU - Metzkor-Cotter, Einat
AU - Martin, Denise A.
AU - Siegman-Igra, Yardena
AU - Korczyn, Amos D.
AU - Rosso, Raffaele
AU - Berger, Stephen A.
AU - Campbell, Grant L.
AU - Lanciotti, Robert S.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.3201/eid0704.017410
DO - 10.3201/eid0704.017410
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AN - SCOPUS:0034853271
SN - 1080-6040
VL - 7
SP - 659
EP - 661
JO - Emerging Infectious Diseases
JF - Emerging Infectious Diseases
IS - 4
ER -
