Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2011)

Genomic Characterization of Nipah Virus, West Bengal, India

  • Vidya A. Arankalle,
  • Bhaswati T. Bandyopadhyay,
  • Ashwini Y. Ramdasi,
  • Ramesh Jadi,
  • Dilip R. Patil,
  • Mehebubar Rahman,
  • Monalisa Majumdar,
  • Parthasarthi S. Banerjee,
  • Amiyakumar K. Hati,
  • Ramaprasad P. Goswami,
  • Dhruba Kumar Neogi,
  • Akhilesh C. Mishra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1705.100968
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 5
pp. 907 – 909

Abstract

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An intrafamilial outbreak in West Bengal, India, involving 5 deaths and person-to-person transmission was attributed to Nipah virus. Full-genome sequence of Nipah virus (18,252 nt) amplified from lung tissue showed 99.2% nt and 99.8% aa identity with the Bangladesh-2004 isolate, suggesting a common source of the virus.

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