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SUBMITTER: Rosa R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3836713 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rosa Roberta R Costa Erica Azevedo EA Marques Rafael Elias RE Oliveira Taismara Simas TS Furtini Ronaldo R Bomfim Maria Rosa Quaresma MR Teixeira Mauro Martins MM Paixão Tatiane Alves TA Santos Renato Lima RL
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 20131121 11
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 viruses. Recently, we isolated a SLEV strain from the brain of a horse with neurological signs in the countryside of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The SLEV isolation was confirmed by reverse-transcription RT- ...[more]