West Nile Virus
A brief review on west nile virus infection
... West Nile Virus (WNV) is a positive sense single-stranded RNA, mosquito-borne virus which belongs to the family ...the West Nile district of Uganda in 1937 in a woman who ...
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Evidence of West Nile virus infection in Nepal
... 16. Lvov DK, Butenko AM, Gromashevsky VL, Kovtunov AI, Prilipov AG, Kinney R, Aristova VA, Dzharkenov AF, Samokhvalov EI, Savage HM, Shchelkanov MY, Galkina IV, Deryabin PG, Gubler DJ, Kulikova LN, Alkhovsky SK, Moskvina ...
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Diversification of West Nile virus in a subtropical region
... Taken together, these findings expand our understanding of the temporal and spatial compartmentalization of West Nile virus subtypes within North America. It would appear that the introduction of the ...
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Genetic Diversity in the Collaborative Cross Model Recapitulates Human West Nile Virus Disease Outcomes
... ABSTRACT West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging neuroinvasive flavivirus that now causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. The innate and adaptive immune responses to WNV infection have ...
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Comparison of Immunohistochemistry and Virus Isolation for Diagnosis of West Nile Virus
... of West Nile virus specifically and allows for identification of other ...encephalitis virus. Therefore, positive diagnosis of West Nile virus requires fol- low-up with ...
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Characterization of Puerto Rican West Nile Virus isolates in mice
... AMCRs: American crows; AST: Average survival time; ATCC: American Type Culture Collection; CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Ct: Cycle threshold values; COL: Colombia; DB: Dengue Branch; DC- SIGNR: ...
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Clinical Utility of Commercial Enzyme Immunoassays during the Inaugural Season of West Nile Virus Activity, Alberta, Canada
... West Nile virus (WNV) has spread rapidly across North America since its introduction in 1999, creating a need for rapid and accurate laboratory diagnosis (3, ...
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Peptide inhibitors of dengue virus and West Nile virus infectivity
... influenza virus and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), contain two prominent alpha ...as West Nile virus (WNV) and dengue virus (DENV), are class II viral fusion proteins ...
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Iron availability affects West Nile virus infection in its mosquito vector
... Transmission of arboviruses, like dengue and West Nile virus, require alternate transmission between inverte- brate mosquitoes and vertebrate hosts [4]. Female mos- quitoes require blood as a source ...
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The Israeli strain IS 98 ST1 of West Nile virus as viral model for West Nile encephalitis in the Old World
... West Nile virus (WNV) is a single-stranded RNA flavivirus (family Flaviviridae, genus flavivirus) with a worldwide distribution ranging Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and ...
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West Nile Virus Infection: A Pediatric Perspective
... ABSTRACT. West Nile virus (WNV) infection recently became a major public health concern in the western ...the virus causes a broad range of manifestations from uncomplicated febrile illness to ...
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Structure of Immature West Nile Virus
... Mature West Nile virus (NY99) was propagated and purified as described elsewhere (8), except that the virus was harvested 30 h after infection and concentrated by polyethylene glycol ...of ...
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Climate change projections of West Nile virus infections in Europe: implications for blood safety practices
... West Nile virus (WNV) is responsible for large out- breaks of fatal neuroinvasive disease worldwide ...arthropod-borne virus, an enveloped, single- strand RNA virus of the genus ...
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Simultaneous detection and differentiation of dengue virus serotypes 1 4, Japanese encephalitis virus, and West Nile virus by a combined reverse transcription loop mediated isothermal amplification assay
... Results: We developed a flexible reverse-transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) unit for the detection and differentiation of dengue virus serotypes 1-4 (DENV1-4), Japanese encephalitis ...
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The Potential of West Nile Virus Transmission Regarding the Environmental Factors Using Geographic Information System (GIS), West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
... isolated West Nile virus from vectors ...the virus in the men- tioned study has been reported from the high- risk areas identified in current study and this point shows the acceptable accuracy ...
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The West Nile Virus-Like Flavivirus Koutango Is Highly Virulent in Mice due to Delayed Viral Clearance and the Induction of a Poor Neutralizing Antibody Response
... mosquito-borne West Nile virus (WNV) is responsible for outbreaks of viral encephalitis in humans, horses, and birds, with particularly virulent strains causing recent outbreaks of disease in eastern ...
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West Nile Virus as a Cause of Death Among Endangered Eastern Loggerhead Shrikes, Lanius ludovicianus migrans , in West St. Paul, Manitoba
... pieces of frozen tissue were placed in microtubes (safe- seal tubes with lid, Sarstedt, St-Leonard, Quebec) con- taining 1.5 mL of RLT lysis buffer (RNeasy mini kit, Qiagen, Mississauga, Ontario), 0.1 M 2-mercaptoetha- ...
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West Nile virus: a growing concern?
... West Nile virus (WNV), a member of the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus, was first isolated from the serum of a febrile woman in 1937 in the West Nile district of Uganda ...(Kunjin ...
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Co circulation of Usutu virus and West Nile virus in a reed bed ecosystem
... Usutu virus (USUV) is a mosquito-borne virus (Japanese encephalitis group, genus Flavivirus; family Flaviviridae) that was originally isolated in ...the virus was introduced to Europe ...to ...
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Detection of seroconversion to West Nile virus, Usutu virus and Sindbis virus in UK sentinel chickens
... West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) are anti- genically closely related mosquito-borne members of the genus ...Sindbis virus (SINV) is an unrelated mos- quito-borne member of ...
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