Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak, India, 2005

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Parida, Manmohan ; Dash, Paban K. ; Tripathi, Nagesh K. ; Sannarangaiah, Santhosh ; Saxena, Parag ; Agarwal, Surekha ; Sahni, Ajay K. ; Singh, Sanjay P. ; Rathi, Arvind K. ; Bhargava, Rakesh ; Abhyankar, Ajay ; Verma, Shailendra K. ; Rao, Putcha V. Lakshmana ; Sekhar, Krishnamurthy
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• Corporate Authors:
  Ambuj
• Description:
  An outbreak of viral encephalitis occurred in Gorakhpur, India, from July through November 2005. The etiologic agent was confirmed to be Japanese encephalitis virus by analyzing 326 acute-phase clinical specimens for virus-specific antibodies and viral RNA and by virus isolation. Phylogenetic analysis showed that these isolates belonged to genogroup 3.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Adolescent
  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Encephalitis Virus, Japanese
  • Encephalitis, Japanese
  • Female
  • Humans
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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 12(9):1427-1430.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  India
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  12
• Issue:
  9
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16242/cdc_16242_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 170.00 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:85c7d15ea690a02d725e235e8715433f156fb4936ccb046ae056f84890f48534