We report West Nile virus (WNV) RNA in urine collected from a patient with encephalitis 8 days after symptom onset.Viral RNA was detected by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR).Sequence and phylogenetic analysis confirmed the PCR product to have >99% similarity to the WNV strain NY 2000-crow3356.
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