Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak, India, 2005

Autor: Manmohan Parida, Paban K. Dash, Nagesh K. Tripathi, Ambuj, Santhosh Sannarangaiah, Parag Saxena, Surekha Agarwal, Ajay K. Sahni, Sanjay P. Singh, Arvind K. Rathi, Rakesh Bhargava, Ajay Abhyankar, Shailendra K. Verma, Putcha V. Lakshmana Rao, Krishnamurthy Sekhar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 12, Iss 9, Pp 1427-1430 (2006)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1080-6040
1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid1209.060200
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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