Enteroviruses in Patients with Acute Encephalitis, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Published Date:Feb 2009
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Source:Emerg Infect Dis. 15(2):295-298.
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Description:An outbreak of viral encephalitis occurred in northern India in 2006. Attempts to identify an etiologic agent in cerebrospinal fluid by using reverse transcription-PCR showed positivity to enterovirus (EV) in 66 (21.6%) of 306 patients. Sequencing and phylogenetic analyses of PCR products from 59 (89.3%) of 66 specimens showed similarity with EV-89 and EV-76 sequences.
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