Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2019)

Infections among Contacts of Patients with Nipah Virus, India

  • C.P. Girish Kumar,
  • Attayur P. Sugunan,
  • Pragya Yadav,
  • Karishma Krishna Kurup,
  • Renjith Aarathee,
  • Ponnaiah Manickam,
  • Tarun Bhatnagar,
  • Chandni Radhakrishnan,
  • Beena Thomas,
  • Akhilesh Kumar,
  • Jayasree Jayasree,
  • Bina Philomina,
  • K.G. Sajeeth Kumar,
  • N.K. Thulaseedharan,
  • Nivedita Gupta,
  • R. Rajendran,
  • R.L. Saritha,
  • Devendra T. Mourya,
  • Raman R. Gangakhedkar,
  • Manoj V. Murhekar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2505.181352
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 5
pp. 1007 – 1010

Abstract

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We conducted a serosurvey of 155 healthcare workers and 124 household and community members who had close contact with 18 patients who had laboratory-confirmed Nipah virus infections in Kerala, India. We detected 3 subclinical infections; 2 persons had IgM and IgG and 1 only IgM against Nipah virus.

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