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
• 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:
  Adolescent Antibodies, Viral Child Child, Preschool Disease Outbreaks Dispatch Encephalitis, Japanese Encephalitis Virus, Japanese Female Humans Infant Male Phylogeny RNA, Viral

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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
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:85c7d15ea690a02d725e235e8715433f156fb4936ccb046ae056f84890f48534
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/16242/cdc_16242_DS1.pdf
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