Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2006)

Japanese Encephalitis Outbreak, India, 2005

  • Manmohan Parida,
  • Paban K. Dash,
  • Nagesh K. Tripathi,
  • Ambuj,
  • Santhosh Sannarangaiah,
  • Parag Saxena,
  • Surekha Agarwal,
  • Ajay K. Sahni,
  • Sanjay P. Singh,
  • Arvind K. Rathi,
  • Rakesh Bhargava,
  • Ajay Abhyankar,
  • Shailendra K. Verma,
  • Putcha V. Lakshmana Rao,
  • Krishnamurthy Sekhar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1209.060200
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 9
pp. 1427 – 1430

Abstract

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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.

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