Infections among Contacts of Patients with Nipah Virus, India

oleh: C.P. Girish Kumar, Attayur P. Sugunan, Pragya Yadav, Karishma Krishna Kurup, Renjith Aarathee, Ponnaiah Manickam, Tarun Bhatnagar, Chandni Radhakrishnan, Beena Thomas, Akhilesh Kumar, Jayasree Jayasree, Bina Philomina, K.G. Sajeeth Kumar, N.K. Thulaseedharan, Nivedita Gupta, R. Rajendran, R.L. Saritha, Devendra T. Mourya, Raman R. Gangakhedkar, Manoj V. Murhekar

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Diterbitkan: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-05-01

Deskripsi

We conducted a serosurvey of 155 healthcare workers and 124 household and community members who had close contact with 18 patients who had laboratory-confirmed Nipah virus infections in Kerala, India. We detected 3 subclinical infections; 2 persons had IgM and IgG and 1 only IgM against Nipah virus.