Nipah Virus Encephalitis Reemergence, Bangladesh

By V. P. Hsu, M. J. Hossain, U. Parashar, Mohammed M. Ali, T. Ksiazek, I. Kuzmin, M. Niezgoda, C. Rupprecht, J. Bresee, R. Breiman. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2004

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Two Nipah virus encephalitis outbreaks in Bangladesh may be associated with person-to-person transmission.

Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Citations in the corpus

• Bats: Important Reservoir Hosts of Emerging Viruses (2006, background): “Serologic surveys of domestic and wild animals undertaken after the 2001 and 2003 outbreaks in Bangladesh provided evidence of Nipah virus infection only in Indian flying foxes (6, 73).”
• Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change (2013, neutral): “Serological surveys found Nipah virus antibodies in Pteropus giganteus fruit bats but no evidence of infection in pigs or other animals (29, 46).”
• The management of encephalitis: clinical practice guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (2008, neutral): “25.”