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Molecular evidence for the occurrence of Japanese encephalitis virus genotype I and III infection associated with acute encephalitis in patients of West Bengal, India, 2010.
Virology journal - 15 Nov 2012
Sarkar Arindam, Taraphdar Debjani, Mukhopadhyay Subhra Kanti, Chakrabarti Sekhar, Chatterjee Shyamalendu
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a mosquito-borne zoonotic pathogen, is the sole etiologic agent of Japanese Encephalitis (JE); a neurotropic killer disease which is one of the major causes of viral encephalitis worldwide with prime public health concern. JE was first reported in the state of West Bengal, India in 1973. Since then it is being reported every year from different districts of the...
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