Endemic Japanese encephalitis in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1146-1149

  Partridge, Jeffrey ^a,b   Ghimire, Prakash ^b   Sedai, Tika ^b   Bista, Mahendra Bahadur ^c   Banerjee, Manas ^d  

^a WHO Programme for Immunization Preventable Disease ^*  (United States)

^b WHO Programme for Immunization Preventable Disease   (Nepal)

^c Department of Health Services   (Nepal)

^d Epidemiology and Disease Control Division   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC ENCEPHALITIS; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION PREVENTION; NEPAL; NONHUMAN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; CHILD; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRAVEL;

JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, JAPANESE; ENCEPHALITIS, JAPANESE; ENDEMIC DISEASES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TRAVEL;

EID: 39049107553     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2007.77.1146     Document Type: Article

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