Enteroviruses in Patients with Acute Encephalitis, Uttar Pradesh, India

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Sapkal, Gajanan N. ; Bondre, Vijay P. ; Fulmali, Pradip V. ; Patil, Pooja ; Dadhania, Vipul ; Ayachit, Vijay M. ; Gangale, Daya ; Kushwaha, K.P. ; Rathi, A.K. ; Chitambar, Shobha D. ; Mishra, Akhilesh Chandra ; Gore, Milind M.
• Corporate Authors:
  Gopalkrishna
• 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.
• Subjects:
  • Dispatch
  • Acute Disease
  • Adolescent
  • Animals
  • Cell Line
  • Cell Line, Tumor
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Cricetinae
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 15(2):295-298.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  India
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  15
• Issue:
  2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/17379/cdc_17379_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 167.40 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:167a2ab322bee442883d0368bd9e805685de569c1d842b2939dc044f55a5fa4a