20Mar 2017

INCIDENCE OF JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS INFECTION IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA ? A TWO YEARS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY.

  • M.Sc- ICMR Virus Unit, ID & BG Hospital campus,GB4, 57 Dr. S.C Banerjee road, Kolkata- 700010, West Bengal, India.
  • PhD- ICMR Virus Unit, ID & BG Hospital campus,GB4, 57 Dr. S.C Banerjee road, Kolkata- 700010, West Bengal, India.
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Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV), is a mosquito-borne pathogen, which causes Japanese Encephalitis (JE); a neurotropic disease with high mortality and can be accounted to be the main player in the increasing global trend of viral encephalitis with prime concern on general public health. JE was initially documented in the East Indian state of West Bengal in the year 1973. From that point forward it is being reported every year consistently from various regions of the state, although the vaccination programme has already being procured. In this way, it shows that there may be either an incomplete coverage of the vaccination approach or the gradual rise of transformed new strains of JEV. Considering this reality, to comprehend the frequency of JEV dissemination and its endemicity in the region, we apprehended a pilot scale epidemiological study on an aggregate of 159 positive patient samples gathered from the 533 clinically presumed patients with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), admitted in the different district health centres and hospitals of West Bengal, India, 2015-2016.

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[Rajendra Prasad Chatterjee, Aroni Chatterjee, Nilanjan Chakraborty and Shyamalendu Chatterjee. (2017); INCIDENCE OF JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS INFECTION IN WEST BENGAL, INDIA ? A TWO YEARS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Mar). 61-65] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Shyamalendu Chatterjee
ICMR Virus Unit, ID & BG Hospital campus,GB4, 57 Dr. S.C Bannerjee road, Kolkata- 700010, West Bengal, India

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3485      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3485

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