| 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 |
| 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 |