Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jul 2004)

Phylogenetic Analysis of West Nile Virus, Nuevo Leon State, Mexico

  • Bradley J. Blitvich,
  • Ildefonso Fernández-Salas,
  • Juan F. Contreras-Cordero,
  • María A. Loroño-Pino,
  • Nicole L. Marlenee,
  • Francisco J. Díaz,
  • José I. González-Rojas,
  • Nelson Obregón-Martínez,
  • Jorge A. Chiu-García,
  • William C. Black,
  • Barry J. Beaty

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1007.030959
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 7
pp. 1314 – 1317

Abstract

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West Nile virus RNA was detected in brain tissue from a horse that died in June 2003 in Nuevo Leon State, Mexico. Nucleotide sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the premembrane and envelope genes showed that the virus was most closely related to West Nile virus isolates from Texas in 2002.

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