The New York State Emerging Infections Program

Surveillance for Encephalitis Syndrome

Publications

• Huang C, Morse D, Slater B, Anand M, Tobin E, Smith P, Dupuis M, Hull R, Ferrera R, Rosen B, Grady L. Multiple-year experience in the diagnosis of central nervous system infections with a panel of polymerase chain reactions assays for detection of 11 viruses. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 39:630-5. PubMed
• Mullins JA, Khetsuriani N, Nix WA, Oberste SM, LaMonte A, Kilpatrick DR, Dunn J, Langer J, McMinn P, Huang QS, Grimwood K, Huang C, Pallansch MA. Emergence of Echovirus 13 as a Prominent Enterovirus. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 38:70-7; 2004. PubMed
• Huang C. Slater B. Rudd R. Parchuri N. Hull R. Dupuis M. Hindenburg A. First Isolation of West Nile virus from a patient with encephalitis in the United States. Emerg Infect Dis 2002; 8:1367-71. PubMed
• Huang C, Slater B, Campbell W, Howard J, White D. Detection of arboviral RNA directly from mosquito homogenates by reverse-transcription-polymerase chain reaction. J Virol Methods 2001; 94:121-128. PubMed
• Campbell GL, Grady LJ, Huang C, Lanciotti R, Kramer L, Roehrig JT, Shope RE. Laboratory testing for West Nile virus: panel discussion. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2001; 951:179-194. PubMed
• Briese, T., X. Jia, et al. Identification of a Kunjin/West Nile-like flavivirus in brains of patients with New York encephalitis. Lancet 1999; 354:1261-2. PubMed
• Huang, C., W. Campbell, et al. Diagnosis of Jamestown Canyon encephalitis by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Clin Infect Dis 1999; 28:1294-1297. PubMed
• Huang, C., N. Chatterjee, et al. PCR Diagnosis of Viral CNS Infections. New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 340:483-4. PubMed
• Huang C, Thompson WH, Karabatsos N, Grady L, Campbell WP. Evidence that fatal human infections with La Crosse virus may be assiciated with a narrow range of genotypes. Virus Research 1997; 48:143-148. PubMed
• Campbell WP, Huang C. Detection of California serogroup Bunyaviruses in tissue culture and mosquito pools by PCR. J Virol Methods 1996; 57:175-179 PubMed
• Reported by: M Cartter, MD, D Mayo, PhD, R Nelson, DVM, L Wilcox, MPH, J Hadler, MD, State Epidemiologist, Connecticut Dept of Public Health. F Sorhage, VMD, B Wolf, MS, E Bresnitz, MD, State Epidemiologist, New Jersey Dept of Health and Senior Svcs. J Greenko, MPH, J Kellachan, MPH, B Edwin, I Poshni, PhD, M Layton, MD, New York City Dept of Health; G Johnson, G Lukacik, B Wallace, MD, C Huang, PhD, L Kramer, PhD, S Wong, PhD, P Smith, MD, State Epidemiologist, New York State Dept of Health. Arbovirus Diseases Br, Div of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; State Br, Div of Applied Public Health Training, Epidemiology Program Office; and EIS officers, CDC. Human West Nile virus surveillance- Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, 2000. MMWR 2001; 50:265. CDC
• Reported by: Q Nguyen, MD, C Morrow, MD, L Novick, MD, Onondaga County Health Dept; C Cambareri, MSN, B Olson, MD, R Aubry, MD, J Snedeker, MD, Univ Hospital at Syracuse, Syracuse; M Anand, C Huang, PhD, D Morse, MD, B Rosen, PhD, B Wallace, MD, S Wong, PhD, P Smith, MD, State Epidemiologist, New York State Dept of Health. D O'Leary, DVM, A Marfin, MD, G Campbell, MD, R Lanciotti, PhD, Div of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC. Intrauterine West Nile virus infection- New York, 2002. MMWR 2002; 51:1135-1136. CDC
• Reported by: LW Teperman, MD, T Diflo, MD, A Fahmy, MB, GR Morgan, MD, RE Wetherbee, MD, New York University Medical Center; L Ratner MD, D Cohen MD, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; J Ackelsberg, MD, M Campbell, MS, E DeBernardo, PhD, A Fine, MD, E Lumeng, MPH, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; NP Tavakoli, PhD, New York State Department of Health. B Dixon, MD, A Weltman, MD, Pennsylvania Department of Health. Div of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases; Div of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; B Tsoi, MD, EIS Officer, CDC. West Nile virus infections in organ transplant recipients- New York and Pennsylvania, August-September, 2005. MMWR 2005; 54:1021-1023. CDC