Monday, 11 June 2018

PRO/AH/EDR> Ntwetwe virus - Uganda: (QZ) 2016

Encephalitis -- Uganda
Abstract
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A Ugandan child with unexplained encephalitis was investigated using viral metagenomics. Several sequences from all segments of a novel orthobunyavirus were found. The S-segment, used for typing, showed 41 percent amino acid diversity to its closest relative. The virus was named Ntwetwe virus, after the hometown of the patient.
[Introduction]
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In 2016, a Ugandan girl presented to the hospital with a suspected CNS infection for which no pathogen could be

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