West Nile virus detection in urine.

ABSTRACT: 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 > or = 99% similarity to the WNV strain NY 2000-crow3356.

SUBMITTER: Tonry JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3320471 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature