Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

First Isolation of West Nile virus from a Patient with Encephalitis in the United States

Cinnia Huang*

, Brett Slater*, Robert Rudd*, Nandakishore Parchuri†, Rene Hull*, Michelle Dupuis*, and Alexander Hindenburg†

Author affiliations: *Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA; †Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York, USA;

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Figure 3

Phylogenetic relationships among West Nile virus strains. Sequence data from the present case are shown in italics. The tree is based on the 1,648-bp fragment encoding the preM, M, and part of the 5′-E gene. Numbers at the nodes are bootstrap confidence estimates based on 1,000 replicates.

Figure 3. Phylogenetic relationships among West Nile virus strains. Sequence data from the present case are shown in italics. The tree is based on the 1,648-bp fragment encoding the preM, M, and part of the 5′-E gene. Numbers at the nodes are bootstrap confidence estimates based on 1,000 replicates.

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