| a large outbreak of acute encephalitis with high fatality rate in children in andhra pradesh, india, in 2003, associated with chandipura virus. | an outbreak of acute encephalitis of unknown origin with high case fatality (183 of 329 cases) was reported in children from andhra pradesh state in southern india during 2003. we investigated the causative agent. | 2004 | 15351194 |
| an outbreak of chandipura virus encephalitis in the eastern districts of gujarat state, india. | an outbreak of encephalitis with a case fatality rate of 78.3% was investigated among children in gujarat state, india. twenty-six cases were reported. three patients had igm antibodies to chandipura virus. virus was isolated from one patient with rhabdomyosarcoma in porcine stable cell lines and in suckling mice. chandipura virus rna was present in 9 of 20 acute-phase serum samples, and virus sequences from the present outbreak were closely related to prototype strain (1965) and andhra pradesh, ... | 2005 | 16172482 |
| chandipura virus: a major cause of acute encephalitis in children in north telangana, andhra pradesh, india. | a hospital-based surveillance was undertaken between may 2005 and april 2006 to elucidate the contribution of chandipura virus (chpv) to acute viral encephalitis cases in children, seroconversion in recovered cases and to compare the seroprevalences of anti-chpv igm and n antibodies in areas reporting cases with those without any case of acute viral encephalitis. during this period, 90 cases of acute encephalitis were hospitalized in the pediatric wards of mahatma gandhi memorial (mgm) hospital, ... | 2008 | 18041027 |
| development and evaluation of a real-time one step reverse-transcriptase pcr for quantitation of chandipura virus. | chandipura virus (chpv), a member of family rhabdoviridae was attributed to an explosive outbreak of acute encephalitis in children in andhra pradesh, india in 2003 and a small outbreak among tribal children from gujarat, western india in 2004. the case-fatality rate ranged from 55-75%. considering the rapid progression of the disease and high mortality, a highly sensitive method for quantifying chpv rna by real-time one step reverse transcriptase pcr (real-time one step rt-pcr) using taqman tec ... | 2008 | 19091082 |