| isolation of saint louis encephalitis virus from a horse with neurological disease in brazil. | st. louis encephalitis virus (slev) is a causative agent of encephalitis in humans in the western hemisphere. slev is a positive-sense rna virus that belongs to the flavivirus genus, which includes west nile encephalitis virus, japanese encephalitis virus, dengue virus and other medically important viruses. recently, we isolated a slev strain from the brain of a horse with neurological signs in the countryside of minas gerais, brazil. the slev isolation was confirmed by reverse-transcription rt- ... | 2013 | 24278489 |