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Phylogenetic analysis of a human isolate from the 2000 Israel West Nile virus epidemic
Thomas Briese1, Andrew Rambaut, Melissa Pathmajeyan
1Emerging Diseases Laboratory, Dept. of Neurology, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, 3107 Gillespie Neuroscience Building, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4292, USA. tbriese@uci.edu
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 9, 2002
Abstract:
Specimens from a patient of the 2000 Israel West Nile virus epidemic were analyzed by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction. Products corresponding to E, NS3, and NS5 sequences were amplified from cerebellar but not from cortical samples. Phylogenetic analyses indicated a closer relationship of this isolate to 1996 Romanian and 1999 Russian than to 1998-99 Israeli or 1999 New York isolates.