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Article: Enteroviruses in patients with acute encephalitis, Uttar Pradesh, India.(DISPATCHES)
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- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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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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A cute viral encephalitis is caused by a wide range of viruses and can occur either in sporadic episodes or in outbreaks. Viral etiologic agents that have been identified as causing encephalitis include herpesvirus, enterovirus, alphavirus, influenza A virus, rabies virus, HIV, ...