Isolation of saint louis encephalitis virus from a horse with neurological disease in Brazil.

• Published in: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Roberta Rosa, Erica Azevedo Costa, Rafael Elias Marques, Taismara Simas Oliveira, Ronaldo Furtini, Maria Rosa Quaresma Bomfim, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Tatiane Alves Paixão, Renato Lima Santos
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; St. Louis
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002537; https://doaj.org/article/7c126646a3c84c6391b676c528e0682a

St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV) is a causative agent of encephalitis in humans in the Western hemisphere. SLEV is a positive-sense RNA virus that belongs to the Flavivirus genus, which includes West Nile encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Dengue virus and other medically important...