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. 2006 Oct;12(10):1559-61.
doi: 10.3201/eid1210.060852.

West Nile virus isolation from equines in Argentina, 2006

María Alejandra Morales  1 , María Barrandeguy, Cintia Fabbri, Jorge B Garcia, Aldana Vissani, Karina Trono, Gerónimo Gutierrez, Santiago Pigretti, Hernán Menchaca, Nelson Garrido, Nora Taylor, Fernando Fernandez, Silvana Levis, Delia Enría
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West Nile virus isolation from equines in Argentina, 2006

María Alejandra Morales et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Oct.

Abstract

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.

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Figure 1
Locations of dead horses reported from February to March 2006 in central Argentina.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Phylogenetic trees of West Nile virus (WNV) nucleotide sequences. Maximum parsimony trees were obtained with TNT software (6). Values of jackknifing support are indicated at nodes. GenBank accession nos. ArEq001, ArEq002, and ArEq003: DQ537383, DQ537385, and DQ811782 (fragments NS5), DQ537382, DQ537384, and DQ811783 (fragments c/prM); ug37: M12294; vol99: AF317203, ari04: DQ164201; geo02: DQ164196; har04: DQ164206; hny1999: AF202541; Kun60: D00246; rum96: AF260969; Eg51:AF260968. A) NS5 fragment. B) C/preM fragment.
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