Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2011)

Fatal Neurologic Disease and Abortion in Mare Infected with Lineage 1 West Nile Virus, South Africa

  • Marietjie Venter,
  • Stacey Human,
  • Stephanie van Niekerk,
  • June Williams,
  • Charmaine van Eeden,
  • Frank Freeman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1708.101794
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 8
pp. 1534 – 1536

Abstract

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In 2010, lineage 1 West Nile virus was detected in South Africa in the brain of a pregnant mare that succumbed to neurologic disease and in her aborted fetus, suggesting an association with abortion in horses. All West Nile virus strains previously detected in horses and humans in South Africa were lineage 2.

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