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West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.

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  • 1. Bernard Pridan Laboratory for Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, 6 Weizman Street, Tel Aviv 64239, Israel.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 01 Jul 2001, 7(4):659-661
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0704.010410 PMID: 11585528 PMCID: PMC2631756

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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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Emerg Infect Dis. 2001 Jul-Aug; 7(4): 659–661.
PMCID: PMC2631756
PMID: 11585528

West Nile encephalitis in Israel, 1999: the New York connection.

M Giladi, E Metzkor-Cotter, D A Martin, Y Siegman-Igra, A D Korczyn, R Rosso, S A Berger, G L Campbell, and R S Lanciotti
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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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