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Diagnosis of Fatal Human Case of St. Louis Encephalitis Virus Infection by Metagenomic Sequencing, California, 2016
12 Sept 2017
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We used unbiased metagenomic next-generation sequencing to diagnose a fatal case of meningoencephalitis caused by St. Louis encephalitis virus in a patient from California in September 2016. This case is associated with the recent 2015-2016 reemergence of this virus in the southwestern United States. S t. Louis encephalitis virus (SLEV), in the Flaviviridae family, is an infectious RNA virus transmitted by Culex...
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