Infections among Contacts of Patients with Nipah Virus, India

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Kumar, C.P. Girish ; Sugunan, Attayur P. ; Yadav, Pragya ; Kurup, Karishma Krishna ; Aarathee, Renjith ; Manickam, Ponnaiah ; Bhatnagar, Tarun ; Radhakrishnan, Chandni ; Thomas, Beena ; Kumar, Akhilesh ; Jayasree, Jayasree ; Philomina, Bina ; Kumar, K.G. Sajeeth ; Thulaseedharan, N.K. ; Gupta, Nivedita ; Rajendran, R. ; Saritha, R.L. ; Mourya, Devendra T. ; Gangakhedkar, Raman R. ; Murhekar, Manoj V.
• Description:
  We conducted a serosurvey of 155 healthcare workers and 124 household and community members who had close contact with 18 patients who had laboratory-confirmed Nipah virus infections in Kerala, India. We detected 3 subclinical infections; 2 persons had IgM and IgG and 1 only IgM against Nipah virus.
• Subjects:
  Contact Tracing Dispatch Healthcare Workers Nipah Virus Subclinical Infection Viruses
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 25(5):1007-1010
• Pubmed ID:
  31002050
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC6478200
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  India
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  5
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:5840058c1266b2a5a0bf1fe2853ff21f2e92fd62dd51026e42c0e09869027e9a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/79350/cdc_79350_DS1.pdf
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