Fatal Infection with Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus Imported from Australia to Canada, 2011

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2017 Jan 19

PMID 28098530

Citations 6

Authors

Daniel J Niven

Kevin Afra

Mircea Iftinca

Raymond Tellier

Kevin Fonseca

Andreas Kramer

David Safronetz

Kimberly Holloway

Michael Drebot

Andrew S Johnson

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Abstract

Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVEV), a flavivirus belonging to the Japanese encephalitis serogroup, can cause severe clinical manifestations in humans. We report a fatal case of MVEV infection in a young woman who returned from Australia to Canada. The differential diagnosis for travel-associated encephalitis should include MVEV, particularly during outbreak years.

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