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Gemykibivirus detection in acute encephalitis patients from Nepal
2024-02-15
Abstract excerpt
Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Nepal, Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) accounts for ∼ 5-20% of AES cases, but ∼75% of AES cases are of unknown etiology. We identified a gemykibivirus in CSF collected in 2020 from a male child with AES using metagenomic next-generation sequencing. Gemykibiviruses are single stranded, circular DNA viruses in the family Gen...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2002f79a-91c8-5044-847f-a8fc5342789d
- DOI
- 10.1101/2024.02.13.24302648
