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

A, Igarashi; M, Tanaka; K, Morita; T, Takasu; A, Ahmed; A, Ahmed; DS, Akram; MA, Waqar

doi:10.1111/j.1348-0421.1994.tb01866.x

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

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Authors:

Igarashi A

Tanaka M

Morita K

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...

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