دورية أكاديمية
Nipah virus infection in Kozhikode, Kerala, South India, in 2018: Epidemiology of an outbreak of an emerging disease
| العنوان: | Nipah virus infection in Kozhikode, Kerala, South India, in 2018: Epidemiology of an outbreak of an emerging disease |
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| المؤلفون: | Bina Thomas, Priya Chandran, M P Lilabi, Biju George, C P Sivakumar, V K Jayadev, V Bindu, R S Rajasi, Binsu Vijayan, Anu Mohandas, Nimin Hafeez |
| المصدر: | Indian Journal of Community Medicine, Vol 44, Iss 4, Pp 383-387 (2019) |
| بيانات النشر: | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Public aspects of medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | acute encephalitis, henipavirus, kozhikode, nipah virus outbreaks, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270 |
| الوصف: | Background: An outbreak of the rare and highly pathogenic Nipah virus infection occurred in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, during May 2018. Methodology: Outbreak control activities included laboratory case confirmation and isolation. Contact surveillance was initiated and close contacts were home quarantined for the maximum incubation period of the disease. Field visits and verbal autopsy of the deaths were done to elicit the details of exposure. Results: Of the 18 confirmed cases, 16 succumbed (case fatality rate, 88.8%). The mean incubation period was 9 days. The transmission was person to person wherein the primary case served as a point source for 15 other cases including 2 health-care workers. The mean age of the affected cases was 41 years with male preponderance. More than 2600 contacts were under surveillance. The outbreak was contained within 3 weeks and declared closed by July the same year. Conclusion: Early detection of the outbreak and prompt isolation of cases along with strengthening of infection control practices and barrier nursing helped in containing the outbreak. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 0970-0218 1998-3581 |
| Relation: | http://www.ijcm.org.in/article.asp?issn=0970-0218;year=2019;volume=44;issue=4;spage=383;epage=387;aulast=Thomas; https://doaj.org/toc/0970-0218; https://doaj.org/toc/1998-3581 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_198_19 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/f71de96fc292469795e907c3b7e7957a |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.f71de96fc292469795e907c3b7e7957a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 09700218 19983581 |
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| DOI: | 10.4103/ijcm.IJCM_198_19 |