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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Venkat, Heather
• Krow-Lucal, Elisabeth
• Hennessey, Morgan
• Jones, Jefferson
• Adams, Laura
• Fischer, Marc
• Sylvester, Tammy
• Levy, Craig
• Smith, Kirk
• Plante, Lydia
• Komatsu, Kenneth
• Staples, J. Erin
• Hills, Susan

Titel

Concurrent Outbreaks of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus and West Nile Virus Disease — Arizona, 2015

Ist Teil von

• MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report, 2015-12, Vol.64 (48), p.1349-1350

Ort / Verlag

United States: Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) and West Nile virus (WNV) are closely related mosquito-borne flaviviruses that can cause outbreaks of acute febrile illness and neurologic disease. Both viruses are endemic throughout much of the United States and have the same Culex species mosquito vectors and avian hosts (1); however, since WNV was first identified in the United States in 1999, SLEV disease incidence has been substantially lower than WNV disease incidence, and no outbreaks involving the two viruses circulating in the same location at the same time have been identified. Currently, there is a commercially available laboratory test for diagnosis of acute WNV infection, but there is no commercially available SLEV test, and all SLEV testing must be performed at public health laboratories. In addition, because antibodies against SLEV and WNV can cross-react on standard diagnostic tests, confirmatory neutralizing antibody testing at public health laboratories is usually required to determine the flavivirus species (2). This report describes the first known concurrent outbreaks of SLEV and WNV disease in the United States.