West Nile virus from blood donors, vertebrates, and mosquitoes, Puerto Rico, 2007

Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Aug;15(8):1298-300. doi: 10.3201/eid1508.090333.

Abstract

West Nile virus (WNV) was isolated from a human blood donor, a dead falcon, and mosquitoes in Puerto Rico in 2007. Phylogenetic analysis of the 4 isolates suggests a recent introduction of lineage I WNV that is closely related to WNV currently circulating in North America.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Blood Donors*
  • Chickens / virology
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / transmission
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / virology
  • Culex / virology
  • Culicidae / virology*
  • Falconiformes / virology
  • Humans
  • Phylogeny
  • Puerto Rico
  • Sentinel Surveillance
  • Time Factors
  • Vertebrates / virology*
  • West Nile Fever / transmission
  • West Nile Fever / virology
  • West Nile virus / classification
  • West Nile virus / genetics
  • West Nile virus / isolation & purification*