West Nile virus detection in urine

• Main Authors: Tonry, Jessica H., Brown, Craig B., Cropp, Cecil B., Co, Juliene Kimberly G., Bennett, Shannon N., Nerurkar, Vivek R., Kuberski, Timothy, Gubler, Duane J.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2005
• Subjects: West Nile virus; Urine; Encephalitis > Patients; Viruses
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/13187
• Institution: De La Salle University

We report West Nile virus (WNV) RNA in urine collected from a patient with encephalitis 8 days after symptom onset. Viral RNA was detected by reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Sequence and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the PCR product to have ≥99% similarity to the WNV stra...