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Phylogenetic Analysis of a Human Isolate from the 2000 Israel<i>West Nile virus</i>Epidemic

Thomas Briese, Andrew Rambaut, Melissa S. Pathmajeyan, Jihad Bishara, Miriam Weinberger, Silvio Pitlik, W. Ian Lipkin

Emerging infectious diseases · 2002 · 36 citations · 16 references

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Specimens from a patient of the 2000 Israel West Nile virus epidemic were analyzed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Products corresponding to E, NS3, and NS5 sequences were amplified from cerebellar but not from cortical samples. Phylogenetic analyses indicated a closer relationship of this isolate to 1996 Romanian and 1999 Russian than to 1998-99 Israeli or 1999 New York isolates.

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