Identification of a Kunjin/West Nile-like flavivirus in brains of patients with New York encephalitis

Lancet. 1999 Oct 9;354(9186):1261-2. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(99)04576-6.

Abstract

Molecular analysis of brains from patients of the recent New York City encephalitis outbreak reveals the presence of a flavivirus not previously described in the Americas.

Publication types

  • Letter
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Birds
  • Brain / virology*
  • Disease Outbreaks*
  • Encephalitis, Viral / epidemiology
  • Encephalitis, Viral / virology*
  • Flavivirus / classification*
  • Flavivirus / genetics
  • Flavivirus / isolation & purification
  • Flavivirus Infections / epidemiology
  • Flavivirus Infections / virology*
  • Genome, Viral*
  • Humans
  • New York City / epidemiology
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Sequence Analysis
  • West Nile virus / genetics