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COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 39-47Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2013.10.006
Keywords
West Nile virus; Genotyping; Pathogenicity; Cross-neutralization
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- Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India
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West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus that causes subclinical symptoms, febrile illness with possible kidney infarction and encephalitis. Since WNV was first serologically detected in Assam during 2006, it has become recognized as an important etiological agent that causes acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in addition to endemic Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV). Therefore, isolating and characterizing the currently circulating strain of WNV is important. The virus was isolated from the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of two patients that presented with AES. The genotyping of the isolates HQ246154 (WNIRGC07) and JQ037832 (WNIRTC08) based on the partial sequencing of 921 nucleotides (C-prM-E) of the genome placed them within lineage 5 along with other Indian strains isolated prior to 1982, but the present circulating virus formed a distinct subclade. The derived amino acid sequence alignment indicated substitution in A(81) T and A(84) of the capsid region in HQ246154. A cross-neutralization assay suggested substantial antigenic variation between isolates. The pathogenesis in mice that suggested the circulating WNV was neuroinvasive and comparatively more pathogenic than previous strains from India. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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