Emerging Infectious Diseases
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Keywords:
Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Belgium, Hungary, West Nile virus, complete genome, meningitis/encephalitis, next-generation sequencing, respiratory culture, respiratory infections, vector-borne infections, viruses, Aged, 80 and over, Genome, Viral, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing, Humans, Male, Phylogeny, Travel-Related Illness, West Nile Fever, 1103 Clinical Sciences, 1108 Medical Microbiology, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, Microbiology, 3202 Clinical sciences, 4202 Epidemiology, 4203 Health services and systems
Abstract:
An elderly patient in Belgium who became critically ill after returning from Hungary was tested for pathogens using routine diagnostic tests. All results were negative. However, using next-generation sequencing on a cultured respiratory sample, laboratorians detected a complete West Nile virus genome, similar to strains isolated in southeastern Europe.