Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Dec;24(12):2380-2382. doi: 10.3201/eid2412.180494.
An elderly patient in Belgium who became critically ill after returning from Hungary was tested for pathogens using routine diagnostic tests. All results were negative. However, using next-generation sequencing on a cultured respiratory sample, laboratorians detected a complete West Nile virus genome, similar to strains isolated in southeastern Europe.
一位从匈牙利返回后病情危重的比利时老年患者，使用常规诊断检测进行了病原体检测。所有结果均为阴性。然而，通过对培养的呼吸道样本进行下一代测序，实验室人员检测到了完整的西尼罗河病毒基因组，与在东南欧分离的毒株相似。
