West Nile virus in Morocco, 2003.

ABSTRACT: West Nile virus (WNV) reemerged in Morocco in September 2003, causing an equine outbreak. A WNV strain isolated from a brain biopsy was completely sequenced. On the basis of phylogenetic analyses, Moroccan WNV strains isolated during the 1996 and 2003 outbreaks were closely related to other strains responsible for equine outbreaks in the western Mediterranean basin.

SUBMITTER: Schuffenecker I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3320441 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature