Exposure-based screening for nipah virus encephalitis, Bangladesh

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 349-351

  Sazzad, Hossain M S ^a   Luby, Stephen P ^b   Ströher, Ute ^c   Daszak, Peter ^d   Sultana, Sharmin ^e   Afroj, Sayma ^a   Rahman, Mahmudur ^e   Gurley, Emily S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^e Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CAREGIVER; FEVER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MENTAL HEALTH; NIPAH VIRUS INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SERODIAGNOSIS; CLASSIFICATION; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTIONS; NIPAH VIRUS; SEROTYPING; VIROLOGY;

BANGLADESH; ENCEPHALITIS, VIRAL; HENIPAVIRUS INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NIPAH VIRUS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEROTYPING;

EID: 84921815446     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2102.141129     Document Type: Article

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