Emerging Infectious Diseases (Feb 2009)

Enteroviruses in Patients with Acute Encephalitis, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Gajanan N. Sapkal,
  • Vijay P. Bondre,
  • Pradip V. Fulmali,
  • Pooja Patil,
  • Vipul Dadhania,
  • Vijay M. Ayachit,
  • Daya Gangale,
  • K.P. Kushwaha,
  • A.K. Rathi,
  • Shobha D. Chitambar,
  • Akhilesh Chandra Mishra,
  • Milind M. Gore

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1502.080865
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 2
pp. 295 – 298

Abstract

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An outbreak of viral encephalitis occurred in northern India in 2006. Attempts to identify an etiologic agent in cerebrospinal fluid by using reverse transcription–PCR showed positivity to enterovirus (EV) in 66 (21.6%) of 306 patients. Sequencing and phylogenetic analyses of PCR products from 59 (89.3%) of 66 specimens showed similarity with EV-89 and EV-76 sequences.

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