Cytokine induction after laboratory-acquired west nile virus infection

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 360, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1260-1262

  Venter, Marietjie ^a   Burt, Felicity J ^b   Blumberg, Lucille ^c   Fickl, Heidi ^a   Paweska, Janusz ^c   Swanepoel, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; CINTREDEKIN BESUDOTOX; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 13; INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ADULT; ARTHRALGIA; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALAISE; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS STRAIN; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; BLOOD; IMMUNOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE;

ADULT; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 62749100642     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc0808647     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Burt FJ, Grobbelaar AA, Leman PA, Anthony FS, Gibson GV, Swanepoel R. Phylogenetic relationships of southern African West Nile virus isolates. Emerg Infect Dis 2002;8:820-6.
2. Botha EM, Markotter W, Wolfaardt M, et al. Genetic determinants of virulence in pathogenic lineage 2 West Nile virus strains. Emerg Infect Dis 2008;14:222-30.
3. Venter M, Myers TG, Wilson MA, et al. Gene expression in mice infected with West Nile virus strains of different neurovir-ulence. Virology 2005;342:119-40.
4. Kalil AC, Devetten MP, Singh S, et al. Use of interferon-alpha in patients with West Nile encephalitis: report of 2 cases. Clin Infect Dis 2005;40:764-6.
5. Klein RS, Lin E, Zhang B, et al. Neuronal CXCL10 directs CD8+ T-cell recruitment and control of West Nile virus encephalitis. J Virol 2005;79:11457-66.