Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak, India, 2005.
An outbreak of viral encephalitis occurred in Gorakhpur, India, from July through November 2005. The etiologic agent was confirmed to be Japanese encephalitis virus by analyzing 326 acute-phase clinical specimens for virus-specific antibodies and viral RNA and by virus isolation. Phylogenetic analysis showed that these isolates belonged to genogroup 3.
Parida
Manmohan
M
Division of Virology, Defence Research and Development Establishment, Gwalior, India. paridamm@rediffmail.com
Dash
Paban K
PK
Tripathi
Nagesh K
NK
Ambuj
Sannarangaiah
Santhosh
S
Saxena
Parag
P
Agarwal
Surekha
S
Sahni
Ajay K
AK
Singh
Sanjay P
SP
Rathi
Arvind K
AK
Bhargava
Rakesh
R
Abhyankar
Ajay
A
Verma
Shailendra K
SK
Rao
Putcha V Lakshmana
PV
Sekhar
Krishnamurthy
K
D000293:Adolescent; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000032:analysis / Q000097:blood; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D004664:Encephalitis Virus, Japanese / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004672:Encephalitis, Japanese / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000821:virology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D017720:Molecular Epidemiology; D010802:Phylogeny; D012367:RNA, Viral / Q000097:blood / Q000134:cerebrospinal fluid
D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D012367:RNA, Viral