Nipah virus-associated encephalitis outbreak, Siliguri, India

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 235-240

  Chadha, Mandeep S ^a   Comer, James A ^b   Lowe, Luis ^b   Rota, Paul A ^b   Rollin, Pierre E ^b   Bellini, William J ^b   Ksiazek, Thomas G ^b   Mishra, Akhilesh C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS RNA;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; URINALYSIS; VIRUS ENCEPHALITIS; VIRUS ISOLATION;

EID: 33644504513     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1202.051247     Document Type: Article

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