TY - JOUR AU - Hindiyeh, Musa AU - Shulman, Lester AU - Mendelson, Ella AU - Weiss, Lea AU - Grossman, Zehava AU - Bin, Hanna T1 - Isolation and Characterization of West Nile Virus from the Blood of Viremic Patients During the 2000 Outbreak in Israel T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2001 VL - 7 IS - 4 SP - 748 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report the isolation of West Nile (WN) virus from four patient serum samples submitted for diagnosis during an outbreak of WN fever in Israel in 2000. Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis revealed two lineages, one closely related to a 1999 New York isolate and the other to a 1999 Russian isolate. KW - West Nile virus KW - outbreak KW - human isolates KW - nucleotide sequence KW - phylogenetic analysis KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid0704.017428 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/4/01-7428_article ER - End of Reference