title: Isolation of two strains of West Nile virus during an outbreak in southern Russia, 1999.
abstract: From July to September 1999, a widespread outbreak of meningoencephalitis associated with West Nile virus (Flavivirus, Flaviviridae) occurred in southern Russia, with hundreds of cases and dozens of deaths. Two strains of West Nile virus isolated from patient serum and brain-tissue samples reacted in hemagglutination-inhibition and neutralization tests with patients' convalescent-phase sera and immune ascites fluid from other strains of West Nile virus.
authors.affiliation: D.I.Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Moscow.
authors.forename: D K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Lvov
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Butenko
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Gromashevsky
authors.forename: V P
authors.initials: VP
authors.lastname: Larichev
authors.forename: S Y
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Gaidamovich
authors.forename: O I
authors.initials: OI
authors.lastname: Vyshemirsky
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Zhukov
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Lazorenko
authors.forename: V N
authors.initials: VN
authors.lastname: Salko
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Kovtunov
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Galimzyanov
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Platonov
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Morozova
authors.forename: N V
authors.initials: NV
authors.lastname: Khutoretskaya
authors.forename: E O
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Shishkina
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Skvortsova
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000821:virology*; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000097:blood; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006385:Hemagglutination Inhibition Tests; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008875:Middle Aged; D009500:Neutralization Tests; D012426:Russia / Q000453:epidemiology; D014766:Viremia / Q000821:virology; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology*; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral