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Molecular epidemiological study of enteroviruses associated with encephalitis in children from India.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Nov 2012
Kumar Arvind, Shukla Deepti, Kumar Rashmi, Idris Mohammad Z, Misra Usha K, Dhole Tapan N
Abstract excerpt
Enteroviruses have been reported in encephalitis cases. However, clinical and epidemiological characteristics of enteroviruses in encephalitis are not fully established. We prospectively investigated 204 children with encephalitis over a period of 2 years (2009 to 2010) for enterovirus. Enterovirus was detected in 45 specimens (22.1%); of these, 40 were typed by seminested reverse transcription-PCR (RT-PCR) and...
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