Abstract

WEST NILE VIRUS

Pooja Soni*, Pooja J Patidar and Pooja K Patidar

ABSTRACT

West Nile virus (WNV) is a neurotropic human pathogen that is the causative agent of West Nile fever and encephalitis.[1] The virus, first isolated from the blood of a woman in the West Nile district of Uganda in1937, historically has been endemic to Africa, Western Asia and the Middle East.[2] WNV was introduced into the Western Hemisphere during the late summer of 1999, when infected individuals were diagnosed in New York State.[1] West Nile virus, a single-stranded RNA flavivirus and member of the Japanese encephalitis virus antigenic complex was first isolated in 1937 in the West Nile province of Uganda from the blood of a febrile woman.[1]

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