| investigation of an epidemic of reye's syndrome in northern region of india. | to determine the extent, epidemiological and clinical features of an epidemic of non-inflammatory encephalopathy in northern region of india. | 1999 | 10745330 |
| epidemiologic lessons: chickenpox outbreak investigation in a rural community around chandigarh, north india. | primary infection with varicella zoster virus (vzv) leads to varicella or chickenpox. the epidemiology of varicella has changed dramatically since the introduction of the varicella vaccine in 1995. the routine childhood immunization in a few countries in the western world like germany and the united states has reduced the incidence of the disease, associated complications, hospital admissions and deaths related to its complications. however, chickenpox outbreaks are common in naive unvaccinated ... | 2011 | 22234108 |
| investigation of an outbreak of varicella in chandigarh, north india, using a real-time polymerase chain reaction approach. | outbreaks of varicella are reported when susceptible population accumulates. this study reports a chickenpox outbreak in burail in august 2014, wherein 20 laboratory-confirmed cases were identified by the detection of varicella zoster virus (vzv) dna and vzv igm antibodies. the viral load between vesicular swabs and serum samples from 8 patients with active lesions was found to have good correlation and further also related with disease severity. real-time polymerase chain reaction can be useful ... | 2017 | 29063890 |