Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2017)

Diagnosis of Fatal Human Case of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Infection by Metagenomic Sequencing, California, 2016

  • Charles Y. Chiu,
  • Lark L. Coffey,
  • Jamie Murkey,
  • Kelly Symmes,
  • Hannah A. Sample,
  • Michael R. Wilson,
  • Samia N. Naccache,
  • Shaun Arevalo,
  • Sneha Somasekar,
  • Scot Federman,
  • Doug Stryke,
  • Paul Vespa,
  • Gary Schiller,
  • Sharon Messenger,
  • Romney Humphries,
  • Steve Miller,
  • Jeffrey D. Klausner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2310.161986
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 10
pp. 1964 – 1968

Abstract

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We used unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing to diagnose a fatal case of meningoencephalitis caused by St. Louis encephalitis virus in a patient from California in September 2016. This case is associated with the recent 2015–2016 reemergence of this virus in the southwestern United States.

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