title: Isolation and characterization of West Nile virus from the blood of viremic patients during the 2000 outbreak in Israel.
abstract: We report the isolation of West Nile (WN) virus from four patient serum samples submitted for diagnosis during an outbreak of WN fever in Israel in 2000. Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis revealed two lineages, one closely related to a 1999 New York isolate and the other to a 1999 Russian isolate.
authors.affiliation: Israel Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Hashomer, 52621, Israel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hindiyeh
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Shulman
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mendelson
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Weiss
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Grossman
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001715:Bird Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D001717:Birds; D003465:Culex / Q000821:virology; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000821:virology; D006736:Horses; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel / Q000453:epidemiology; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000032:analysis; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017423:Sequence Analysis, RNA; D014766:Viremia / Q000821:virology*; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000097:blood / Q000276:immunology / Q000662:veterinary / Q000821:virology*; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D012367:RNA, Viral