West Nile Virus Detection in Urine

We report West Nile virus (WNV) RNA in urine collected from a patient with encephalitis 8 days after symptom onset. Viral RNA was detected by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequence and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the PCR product to have ≥99% similarity to the WNV stra...

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Main Authors: Tonry, Jessica H., Brown, Craig B., Cropp, Cecil B., Co, Juliene K.G., Bennett, Shannon N., Nerurkar, Vivek R., Kuberski, Timothy, Gubler, Duane J.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2005
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320471/