West Nile virus isolation from equines in Argentina, 2006.
West Nile virus (WNV) was isolated from the brains of 3 horses that died from encephalitis in February 2006. The horses were from different farms in central Argentina and had not traveled outside the country. This is the first isolation of WNV in South America.
Morales
María Alejandra
MA
Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas, Dr. Julio I. Malztegui, Pergainino, Buenos Aires, Argentina. malemor@yahoo.com.ar
Barrandeguy
María
M
Fabbri
Cintia
C
Garcia
Jorge B
JB
Vissani
Aldana
A
Trono
Karina
K
Gutierrez
Gerónimo
G
Pigretti
Santiago
S
Menchaca
Hernán
H
Garrido
Nelson
N
Taylor
Nora
N
Fernandez
Fernando
F
Levis
Silvana
S
Enría
Delia
D
D000818:Animals; D001118:Argentina / Q000453:epidemiology; D001483:Base Sequence / Q000235:genetics; D001921:Brain / Q000821:virology; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000821:virology*; D006736:Horses; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification*