Title |
Evidence of West Nile virus infection in Nepal
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Published in |
BMC Infectious Diseases, November 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/s12879-014-0606-0 |
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Authors |
Wiriya Rutvisuttinunt, Piyawan Chinnawirotpisan, Chonticha Klungthong, Sanjaya Kumar Shrestha, Amod Bahadur Thapa, Arjun Pant, Samuel L Yingst, In-Kyu Yoon, Stefan Fernandez, Julie A Pavlin |
Abstract |
BackgroundAcute febrile illness is common among those seeking medical care and is frequently treated empirically with the underlying illness remaining undiagnosed in resource-poor countries. A febrile illness study was conducted 2009-2010 to identify known and unknown pathogens circulating in Nepal.MethodStudy methods included diagnostic testing and preliminary ELISA screening of acute and convalescent samples for diseases both known and unknown to be circulating in Nepal, including West Nile virus (WNV). The molecular assays including Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), Sanger sequencing and ultra deep sequencing on MiSeq Illumina Platform were conducted to further confirm the presence of WNV.ResultsThe study enrolled 2,046 patients presenting undifferentiated febrile illness with unknown etiology. Sera from 14 out of 2,046 patients were tested positive for west nile virus (WNV) by nested Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR). Only two out of 14 cases were confirmed for the presence of WNV by sequencing and identified as WNV lineage 1 phylogentically. The two patients were adult males with fever and no neurological symptoms from Kathmandu and Bharatpur, Nepal.ConclusionTwo out of 2,046 serum samples contained fragments of WNV genome resembling WNV lineage 1, which is evidence of the continued spread of WNV which should be considered a possible illness cause in Nepal. |
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