| prevalence of west nile virus infection in india. | during the course of the virological investigation of cases of suspected viral fevers carried out at the national institute of virology (niv), pune, india, evidence of recent infection with west nile (wn) virus was detected in 88 cases. fever, general aches, headache, nausea and vomiting were the principal clinical features in 92% (81/88) of the cases; there were seven cases of encephalitis, in which wn virus-specific igm class antibodies were detected in csf samples. these cases of encephalitis ... | 2002 | 12757229 |
| susceptibility status of two species of japanese encephalitis vectors to insecticides in the thar desert, district bikaner (rajasthan). | susceptibility tests were conducted on the adults of two species of japanese encephalitis vectors viz., culex pseudovishnui and c. tritaeniorhynchus against diagnostic doses of ddt, dieldrin, malathion, fenitrothion, propoxur and permethrin at different exposure duration. c. pseudovishnui was found susceptible to permethrin and resistant to dieldrin and propoxur while c. tritaeniorhynchus was found susceptible to permethrin and resistant to ddt, dieldrin, fenitrothion and propoxur. a verificatio ... | 1995 | 7601496 |