First isolation of West Nile virus in Brazil

First isolation of West Nile virus in Brazil

BACKGROUND Serological evidence of West Nile virus (WNV) infection has been reported in different regions of Brazil from equine and human hosts but the virus had never been isolated in the country. OBJECTIVES We sought to identify the viral etiology of equine encephalitis in Espírito Santo state....

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Main Authors: Lívia Caricio Martins, Eliana Vieira Pinto da Silva, Livia Medeiros Neves Casseb, Sandro Patroca da Silva, Ana Cecília Ribeiro Cruz, Jamilla Augusta de Sousa Pantoja, Daniele Barbosa de Almeida Medeiros, Arnaldo Jorge Martins Filho, Ermelinda do Rosário Moutinho da Cruz, Marialva Tereza Ferreira de Araújo, Jedson Ferreira Cardoso, Marcos Antônio Correia Rodrigues da Cunha, Gilton Luiz Almada, Alessandro Pecego Martins Romano, Maria Guadalupe Dias Pestana Santos, Gilsa Aparecida Pimenta Rodrigues, Jannifer Oliveira Chiang, Juarez Antonio Simões Quaresma, Valéria Lima Carvalho, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2019-01-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Subjects:
West Nile virus
horses
Brazil
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762019000100305&lng=en&tlng=en

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