TY - JOUR AU - Maamary, Joel AU - Maddocks, Susan AU - Barnett, Yael AU - Wong, Stephen AU - Rodriguez, Michael AU - Hueston, Linda AU - Jeoffreys, Neisha AU - Eden, John-Sebastian AU - Dwyer, Dominic AU - Floyd, Tony AU - Plit, Marshall AU - Kok, Jen AU - Brew, Bruce T1 - New Detection of Locally Acquired Japanese Encephalitis Virus Using Clinical Metagenomics, New South Wales, Australia T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2023 VL - 29 IS - 3 SP - 627 SN - 1080-6059 AB - In the context of an emerging Japanese encephalitis outbreak within Australia, we describe a novel locally acquired case in New South Wales. A man in his 70s had rapidly progressive, fatal meningoencephalitis, diagnosed as caused by Japanese encephalitis virus by RNA-based metagenomic next-generation sequencing performed on postmortem brain tissue. KW - Japanese encephalitis virus KW - Japanese encephalitis KW - metagenomics KW - meningoencephalitis KW - meningitis/encephalitis KW - neurology KW - virology KW - viruses KW - vector-borne infections KW - Australia DO - 10.3201/eid2903.220632 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/3/22-0632_article ER - End of Reference