TY - JOUR AU - Lvov, D.K. AU - Butenko, A.M. AU - Gromashevsky, V.L. AU - Larichev, V.Ph. AU - Gaidamovich, S.Ya. AU - Vyshemirsky, O.I. AU - Zhukov, A.N. AU - Lazorenko, V.V. AU - Salko, V.N. AU - Kovtunov, A.I. AU - Galimzyanov, Kh.M. AU - Platonov, A.E. AU - Morozova, T.N. AU - Khutoretskaya, N.V. AU - Shishkina, E.O. AU - Skvortsova, T.M. T1 - Isolation of Two Strains of West Nile Virus during an Outbreak in Southern Russia, 1999 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2000 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 373 SN - 1080-6059 AB - From July to September 1999, a widespread outbreak of meningoencephalitis associated with West Nile virus (Flavivirus, Flaviviridae) occurred in southern Russia, with hundreds of cases and dozens of deaths. Two strains of West Nile virus isolated from patient serum and brain-tissue samples reacted in hemagglutination-inhibition and neutralization tests with patients' convalescent-phase sera and immune ascites fluid from other strains of West Nile virus. KW - west nile virus KW - Russia KW - memingoencephalitis KW - Arbovirus infection DO - 10.3201/eid0604.000408 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/6/4/00-0408_article ER - End of Reference