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. 1994;38(10):827-30.
doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1994.tb01866.x.

Detection of west Nile and Japanese encephalitis viral genome sequences in cerebrospinal fluid from acute encephalitis cases in Karachi, Pakistan

A Igarashi  1 , M Tanaka, K Morita, T Takasu, A Ahmed, A Ahmed, D S Akram, M A Waqar
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Detection of west Nile and Japanese encephalitis viral genome sequences in cerebrospinal fluid from acute encephalitis cases in Karachi, Pakistan

A Igarashi et al. Microbiol Immunol. 1994.
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Abstract

Reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) on 24 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens collected between February and August 1992 detected genome sequence of West Nile (WN) virus in 8 specimens and Japanese encephalitis (JE) virus in a single specimen. The results, combined with the data by IgM-ELISA on CSF indicated that a significant proportion of acute encephalitis cases in Karachi, Pakistan, were caused by WN virus infection, while JE virus caused a small fraction.

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