TY - JOUR AU - Chadha, Mandeep AU - Comer, James AU - Lowe, Luis AU - Rota, Paul AU - Rollin, Pierre AU - Bellini, William AU - Ksiazek, Thomas AU - Mishra, Akhilesh T1 - Nipah Virus-associated Encephalitis Outbreak, Siliguri, India T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 2 SP - 235 SN - 1080-6059 AB - During January and February 2001, an outbreak of febrile illness associated with altered sensorium was observed in Siliguri, West Bengal, India. Laboratory investigations at the time of the outbreak did not identify an infectious agent. Because Siliguri is in close proximity to Bangladesh, where outbreaks of Nipah virus (NiV) infection were recently described, clinical material obtained during the Siliguri outbreak was retrospectively analyzed for evidence of NiV infection. NiV-specific immunoglobulin M (IgM) and IgG antibodies were detected in 9 of 18 patients. Reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays detected RNA from NiV in urine samples from 5 patients. Sequence analysis confirmed that the PCR products were derived from NiV RNA and suggested that the NiV from Siliguri was more closely related to NiV isolates from Bangladesh than to NiV isolates from Malaysia. NiV infection has not been previously detected in India. KW - Research KW - India KW - Nipah virus KW - encephalitis DO - 10.3201/eid1202.051247 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/2/05-1247_article ER - End of Reference