West Nile encephalitis outbreak in Kerala, India, 2011

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 152-155

  Anukumar, B ^a   Sapkal, Gajanan N ^a   Tandale, Babasheb V ^a   Balasubramanian, R ^a   Gangale, Daya ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Acute encephalitis syndrome; Disease outbreak; Flavivirus; India; Kerala; Lineage I West Nile virus

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M ANTIBODY; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; ENCEPHALITIS; ENVELOPE GENE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INDIA; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS; JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASONAL VARIATION; VERO CELL LINE; VIRUS ISOLATION; WEST NILE ENCEPHALITIS; WEST NILE FLAVIVIRUS; AGED; BLOOD; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; VIREMIA; VIROLOGY; WEST NILE FEVER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS; VIREMIA; WEST NILE FEVER; WEST NILE VIRUS;

EID: 84905108383     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2014.06.003     Document Type: Article

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