Fatal neurologic disease and abortion in mare infected with lineage 1 West Nile virus, South Africa
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Venter, Marietjie
Human, Stacey
Van Niekerk, Stephanie
Williams, June Heather
Van Eeden, Charmaine
Freeman, Frank
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Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
In 2010, lineage 1 West Nile virus was detected in
South Africa in the brain of a pregnant mare that succumbed
to neurologic disease and in her aborted fetus, suggesting
an association with abortion in horses. All West Nile virus
strains previously detected in horses and humans in South
Africa were lineage 2.
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Fatal neurologic disease, Abortion in a horse, Lineage 1 West Nile virus, South Africa
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Citation
Venter, M, Human, S, Van Niekerk, S, Williams, J, Van Eeden, C & Freeman, F 2011, 'Fatal neurologic disease and abortion in mare infected with lineage 1 West Nile virus, South Africa', Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 1534-1536.