Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2005)

West Nile Virus Detection in Urine

  • Jessica H. Tonry,
  • Craig B. Brown,
  • Cecil B. Cropp,
  • Juliene K.G. Co,
  • Shannon N. Bennett,
  • Vivek R. Nerurkar,
  • Timothy Kuberski,
  • Duane J. Gubler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1108.050238
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 8
pp. 1294 – 1296

Abstract

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We report West Nile virus (WNV) RNA in urine collected from a patient with encephalitis 8 days after symptom onset. Viral RNA was detected by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequence and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the PCR product to have ≥99% similarity to the WNV strain NY 2000-crow3356.

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