Fatal Infection with Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus Imported from Australia to Canada, 2011
- Daniel J. Niven
- Kevin Afra
- Mircea Iftinca
- Raymond Tellier
- Kevin Fonseca
- Andreas Kramer
- David Safronetz
- Kimberly Holloway
- Michael Drebot
- Andrew S. Johnson
Publication date
February 2017
DOI Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Journal
Emerging Infectious DiseasesAbstract
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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