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A large outbreak of Japanese encephalitis predominantly among adults in northern region of West Bengal, India.
Journal of medical virology - 1 Nov 2016
Gurav Yogesh K, Bondre Vijay P, Tandale Babasaheb V, Damle Rekha G, Mallick Sanjay, Ghosh Uday S, Nag Shankha S
Abstract excerpt
Unusual rise of acute encephalitis syndrome cases (AES) were reported in July 2014 in the northern region of West Bengal, India. Investigations were carried out to characterize the outbreak and to identify the associated virus etiology. This observational study is based on 398 line listed AES cases, mostly (70.8%, 282/398) adults, with case fatality ratio of 28.9% (115/398). Japanese encephalitis virus infection...
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