Acute Encephalitis with Atypical Presentation of Rubella in Family Cluster, India

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Bharadwaj, Sumit D. ; Sahay, Rima R. ; Yadav, Pragya D. ; Dhanawade, Sara ; Basu, Atanu ; Meena, Virendra K. ; George, Suji ; Damle, Rekha ; Sapkal, Gajanan N.
• Description:
  We report 3 atypical rubella cases in a family cluster in India. The index case-patient showed only mild febrile illness, whereas the other 2 patients showed acute encephalitis and died of the disease. We confirmed rubella in the index and third cases using next-generation sequencing and IgM.
• Subjects:
  Acute Disease Antibodies, Viral Biomarkers Child Child, Preschool Dispatch Encephalitis, Viral Family Fatal Outcome Female Genome, Viral High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing Humans Immunoglobulin G Immunoglobulin M Male Phenotype RNA, Viral Rubella Siblings Symptom Assessment

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 24(10):1923-1925.
• Pubmed ID:
  30226166
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6154155
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  India
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  24
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:647aec8b215c562bc61f01d924bf9127f78ecca20ac625e1a9e1a952f6e18d45
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/59456/cdc_59456_DS1.pdf
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