Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2017)

Fatal Infection with Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus Imported from Australia to Canada, 2011

  • Daniel J. Niven,
  • Kevin Afra,
  • Mircea Iftinca,
  • Raymond Tellier,
  • Kevin Fonseca,
  • Andreas Kramer,
  • David Safronetz,
  • Kimberly Holloway,
  • Michael Drebot,
  • Andrew S. Johnson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2302.161161
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 2
pp. 280 – 283

Abstract

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Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV), a flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis serogroup, can cause severe clinical manifestations in humans. We report a fatal case of MVEV infection in a young woman who returned from Australia to Canada. The differential diagnosis for travel-associated encephalitis should include MVEV, particularly during outbreak years.

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