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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Anthony Gallo, B.S. [2]; Contributor(s): Irfan Dotani [3], Vishnu Vardhan Serla M.B.B.S. [4]

Overview

St. Louis encephalitis virus is usually transmitted via mosquitos (from the genome Culex) to the human host. St. Louis encephalitis virus contains positive-sense viral RNA. Transmission to humans requires mosquito species capable of creating a "bridge" between infected animals and uninfected humans. The incubation period is 5-15 days.[1] Humans are dead-end hosts for the virus, meaning there is an insufficient amount of Japanese encephalitis virus in the blood stream to infect a mosquito; there is also no evidence of person to person spread.[2]

Pathophysiology

St. Louis encephalitis virus is usually transmitted via mosquitos to the human host. St. Louis encephalitis virus contains positive-sense viral RNA; this RNA has its genome directly utilized as if it were mRNA, producing a single protein which is modified by host and viral proteins to form the various proteins needed for replication. The following table is a summary of the St. Louis encephalitis virus:[3][4]

Characteristic Data
Nucleic acid RNA
Sense ssRNA(+)
Virion Enveloped
Capsid Spherical
Symmetry Yes; T=3-like organization; icosahedral-like
Capsid monomers Unknown
Envelope length (diameter) 50 nm
Additional envelope information Mature virons contain 2 virus-encoded membrane proteins (M and E); immature virons contain a protein precursor
Genome shape Linear
Genome length 10-11 kb
Nucleotide cap Yes
Polyadenylated tail No; a loop structure is formed instead
Incubation period 5-15 days

St. Louis encephalitis is contracted by the bite of an infected mosquito, primarily Culex pipiens, Culex tarsalis, and Culex nigripalpus. St. Louis encephalitis virus circulates between a mosquito vector and birds in the United States and South America.[5] Transmission to humans requires mosquito species capable of creating a "bridge" between infected animals and uninfected humans; this occurs when humans become part of the enzootic cycle. [1] Humans are dead-end hosts for the virus, meaning there is an insufficient amount of St. Louis encephalitis virus in the blood stream to infect another human. There is no evidence of St. Louis encephalitis transmission from person to person.[2]

St. Louis encephalitis virus is transmitted in the following pattern:[3]

  1. Attachment of the viral envelope protein E to host receptors mediates internalization into the host cell by clathrin-mediated endocytosis, or by apoptotic mimicry.
  2. Fusion of virus membrane with host endosomal membrane. RNA genome is released into the cytoplasm.
  3. The positive-sense ssRNA virus is translated into a polyprotein, which is cleaved into all structural and non-structural proteins necessary for RNA synthesis (replication and transcription).
  4. Replication takes place at the surface of endoplasmic reticulum in cytoplasmic viral factories. A dsRNA genome is synthesized from the genomic ssRNA(+).
  5. The dsRNA genome is transcribed/replicated, thereby providing viral mRNAs/new ssRNA(+) genomes.
  6. Virus assembly occurs at the endoplasmic reticulum. The virion buds via the host endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT), and is sent to the Golgi apparatus.
  7. The prM protein is cleaved in the Golgi, thereby maturing the virion which is fusion competent.
  8. New virions are released by exocytosis.

Histopathological

On microscopic histopathological analysis, the enveloped, spherical, and icosahedral-like virion shape are characteristic findings of St. Louis encephalitis.

[Image:CULEXT1.jpg|left|Image of culex tarsalis] [Image:Sle_transmission_cycle_450px.jpg|left|Transmission cycle]

Genetics

Five evolutionary genetic studies of SLE virus have been published of which four[6][7][8][9] focused on phylogeny, genetic variation, and recombination dynamics by sequencing the envelope protein gene and parts of other genes.

A recent evolutionary study[10] based on 23 new full open reading frame sequences (near-complete genomes) found that the North American strains belonged to a single clade. Strains were isolated at different points in time (from 1933 to 2001) which allowed for the estimation of divergence times of SLE virus clades and the overall evolutionary rate. Furthermore, this study found an increase in the effective population size of the SLE virus around the end of the 19th century that corresponds to the split of the latest North American clade, suggesting a northwards colonization of SLE virus in the Americas. Scans for natural selection showed that most codons of the SLE virus ORF were evolving neutrally or under negative selection. Positive selection was statistically detected only at one single codon coding for amino acids belonging to the hypothesized N-linked glycosylation site of the envelope protein. Nevertheless, the latter can be due to selection in vitro (laboratory) rather than in vivo (host). In an independent study[9] 14 out of 106 examined envelope gene sequences were found not to contain a specific codon at position 156 coding for this glycosylation site (Ser→Phe/Tyr).

Another study estimated the evolutionary rate to be Template:J (95% confidence Template:J).[11] The virus seems to have evolved in northern Mexico and then spread northwards with migrating birds.

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Saint Louis Encephalitis. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases. (2010) http://www.cdc.gov/sle/general/qa.html Accessed on May 3, 2016.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Saint Louis Encephalitis Transmission. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases. (2010) http://www.cdc.gov/sle/technical/transmission.html Accessed on May 3, 2016.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Flavivirus. SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. (2015) http://viralzone.expasy.org/viralzone/all_by_species/24.html Accessed on April 12, 2016
  4. Japanese encephalitis - Frequently Asked Questions. CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015) http://www.cdc.gov/japaneseencephalitis/qa/index.html Accessed on April 12, 2016
  5. The Management of Encephalitis: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://www.idsociety.org/uploadedFiles/IDSA/Guidelines-Patient_Care/PDF_Library/Encephalitis.pdf Accessed on May 3, 2016.
  6. Kramer LD, Presser SB, Hardy JL, Jackson AO. (1997) Genotypic and phenotypic variation of selected Saint Louis encephalitis viral strains isolated in California. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 57(2):222–229. Abstract
  7. Kramer LD, Chandler LJ. (2001) Phylogenetic analysis of the envelope gene of St. Louis encephalitis virus. Archives of Virology 146(12):2341–2355. doi:10.1007/s007050170007.
  8. Twiddy SS, Holmes EC. (2003) The extent of homologous recombination in members of the genus Flavivirus. Journal of General Virology 84:429-440. doi:10.1099/vir.0.18660-0.
  9. 9.0 9.1 May FJ, Li L, Zhang S, Guzman H, Beasley DW, Tesh RB, Higgs S, Raj P, Bueno R Jr, Randle Y, Chandler L, Barrett AD. (2008) Genetic variation of St. Louis encephalitis virus. Journal of General Virology 89(8):1901-1910. doi:10.1099/vir.0.2008/000190-0.
  10. Baillie GJ, Kolokotronis SO, Waltari E, Maffei JG, Kramer LD, Perkins SL. (2008) Phylogenetic and evolutionary analyses of St. Louis encephalitis virus genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(2):717-728. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.015.
  11. Auguste AJ, Pybus OG, Carrington CV (2009). Evolution and dispersal of St. Louis encephalitis virus in the Americas. Infect Genet Evol 9(4):709-715.
  12. 12.0 12.1 "Public Health Image Library (PHIL)".

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