Exposure-Based Screening for Nipah Virus Encephalitis, Bangladesh

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Sazzad, Hossain M.S. ; Luby, Stephen P. ; Ströher, Ute ; Daszak, Peter ; Sultana, Sharmin ; Afroj, Sayma ; Rahman, Mahmudur ; Gurley, Emily S.
• Description:
  We measured the performance of exposure screening questions to identify Nipah virus encephalitis in hospitalized encephalitis patients during the 2012-13 Nipah virus season in Bangladesh. The sensitivity (93%), specificity (82%), positive predictive value (37%), and negative predictive value (99%) results suggested that screening questions could more quickly identify persons with Nipah virus encephalitis.
• Subjects:
  Dispatch Encephalitis, Viral Henipavirus Infections Humans Nipah Virus/classification Population Surveillance Serotyping
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 21(2):349-351.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Bangladesh
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  21
• Issue:
  2
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:da81341a673a306c9f1293fee00cea17d17b06cfe6efc7781ca8bbdaa44c6557
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27438/cdc_27438_DS1.pdf
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