TY - JOUR AU - Diaz, Luis Adrián AU - Ré, Viviana AU - Almirón, Walter R. AU - Farías, Adrián AU - Vázquez, Ana AU - Sanchez-Seco, María Paz AU - Aguilar, Javier AU - Spinsanti, Lorena AU - Konigheim, Brenda AU - Visintin, Andrés AU - García, Jorge AU - Morales, Maria Alejandra AU - Tenorio, Antonio AU - Contigiani, Marta T1 - Genotype III Saint Louis Encephalitis Virus Outbreak, Argentina, 2005 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 11 SP - 1752 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Twenty-six years after it was last detected, Saint Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) genotype III reemerged in 2005 in Córdoba, Argentina, where it caused an outbreak. Two genotype III SLEV strains were isolated from Culex quinquefasciatus. A 71.43% prevalence for neutralizing antibodies was found in domestic fowl in the homestead of a patient with encephalitis. KW - Saint Louis viral encephalitis KW - Diseases outbreaks KW - Culex KW - Poultry KW - dispatch KW - Argentina DO - 10.3201/eid1211.060486 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/11/06-0486_article ER - End of Reference