| isolation of a newly recognized alphavirus from mosquitoes in vietnam and evidence for human infection and disease. | during studies of arboviral epidemiology in vietnam, five virus isolates were recovered from culex tritaeniorhynchus mosquitoes. three of the five isolates were identified as strains of japanese encephalitis virus, but the others, collected at me tri village, hanoi, were shown to represent an alphavirus, for which we propose the name me tri virus. this newly recognized virus is most closely related to semliki forest virus. the two isolates appear to be antigenic subtypes of a single virus, and e ... | 1995 | 7625527 |
| japanese encephalitis among hospitalized pediatric and adult patients with acute encephalitis syndrome in hanoi, vietnam 1995. | the etiologic spectrum of acute encephalitis syndrome (aes) has not been well defined in vietnam. cohort and case-control studies were performed on all adult and pediatric aes patients admitted to the neurology service of bach mai hospital between june 5 and august 3, 1995. among pediatric aes patients, 31 (67%) of 46 had acute japanese encephalitis (je), compared with only two (6%) of 33 adult aes patients (p < 0.0001). for confirmed je cases, serum specimens obtained 15-21 days after symptom o ... | 1998 | 9546412 |
| isolation of arboviruses from mosquitoes collected in northern vietnam. | in response to recent increases in cases of pediatric encephalitis with unknown etiology in northern vietnam, surveillance for arbovirus activity was conducted in four provinces surrounding the city of hanoi during june 2002 and july-august 2004. a total of 20,615 mosquitoes consisting of 19 species in 1,122 pools were processed for virus isolation; virus isolates were obtained from 44 pools. sagiyama virus (11 isolates), getah virus (15 isolates), oya virus (13 isolates), and akabane virus (4 i ... | 2005 | 16103625 |