Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak, India, 2005

Autor: Parag Saxena, P. V. L. Rao, Nagesh K. Tripathi, Arvind K. Rathi, Agarwal Ss, Rakesh Bhargava, Sanjay P. Singh, Ajay Abhyankar, Krishnamurthy Sekhar, Santhosh Sannarangaiah, Ambuj, Paban Kumar Dash, Manmohan Parida, A.K. Sahni, Shailendra Kumar Verma
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 9, Pp 1427-1430 (2006)
Emerging Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1080-6059
1080-6040
Popis: An outbreak of viral encephalitis occurred in Gorakhpur, India, from July through November 2005. The etiologic agent was confirmed to be Japanese encephalitis virus by analyzing 326 acute-phase clinical specimens for virus-specific antibodies and viral RNA and by virus isolation. Phylogenetic analysis showed that these isolates belonged to genogroup 3.
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