New Detection of Locally Acquired Japanese Encephalitis Virus Using Clinical Metagenomics, New South Wales, Australia
Joel Maamary, Susan Maddocks, Yael Barnett, Stephen T.C. Wong, Michael Rodríguez, Linda Hueston, Neisha Jeoffreys, John‐Sebastian Eden, Dominic E. Dwyer, Tony Floyd, M. Plit, Jen Kok, Bruce J. Brew
Abstract
In the context of an emerging Japanese encephalitis outbreak within Australia, we describe a novel locally acquired case in New South Wales. A man in his 70s had rapidly progressive, fatal meningoencephalitis, diagnosed as caused by Japanese encephalitis virus by RNA-based metagenomic next-generation sequencing performed on postmortem brain tissue.
Topics & Concepts
EncephalitisJapanese encephalitisMetagenomicsOutbreakContext (archaeology)VirologyMeningoencephalitisVirusBiologyGeneGeneticsPaleontologyMosquito-borne diseases and controlViral Infections and VectorsVector-borne infectious diseases