Volume 7, Number 4—August 2001
THEME ISSUE
West Nile Virus
West Nile Virus
West Nile Encephalitis in Israel, 1999: The New York Connection
Michael Giladi*
, Einat Metzkor-Cotter*, Denise A. Martin*, Yardena Siegman-Igra*, Amos D. Korczyn*, Raffaele Rosso*, Stephen A. Berger*, Grant L. Campbell†, and Robert S. Lanciotti†
, Einat Metzkor-Cotter*, Denise A. Martin*, Yardena Siegman-Igra*, Amos D. Korczyn*, Raffaele Rosso*, Stephen A. Berger*, Grant L. Campbell†, and Robert S. Lanciotti†
Table 2
Nucleotide differences detected between West Nile (WN) virus genomic sequence data from patient 1, WN-Israel 1998, and WN-NY99
| Sequences amplified from | WN-Israel | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| WN virus nucleotide position | brain of patient 1 | 1998a | WN-NY99b |
| 1118 | C | C | T |
| 1285 | C | C | T |
| 10851 | G | A | A |
aWN-Israel 1998 was isolated at the Pasteur Institute from a dead goose found in Israel in 1998.
bWN-NY99 was isolated from a dead flamingo in the Bronx Zoo, New York, 1999.
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