Volume 18, Number 2—February 2012
Research
Characterization of Nipah Virus from Outbreaks in Bangladesh, 2008–2010
Michael K. Lo
, Luis Lowe, Kimberly B. Hummel, Hossain M.S. Sazzad, Emily S. Gurley, M. Jahangir Hossain, Stephen P. Luby, David M. Miller, James A. Comer, Pierre E. Rollin, William J. Bellini, and Paul A. Rota
, Luis Lowe, Kimberly B. Hummel, Hossain M.S. Sazzad, Emily S. Gurley, M. Jahangir Hossain, Stephen P. Luby, David M. Miller, James A. Comer, Pierre E. Rollin, William J. Bellini, and Paul A. Rota
Table 1
Results from patients with confirmed Nipah virus infection, Bangladesh, 2008–2010*
| Patient no. | Year isolated | Case type | Serologic result |
RT-PCR result |
Virus isolation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IgM | IgG | Conventional | Real-time | ||||
| 1 | 2008 | Cluster | + | + | – | – | – |
| 2 | 2008 | Cluster | + | – | – | + | – |
| 3 | 2008 | Cluster | – | – | + | + | + |
| 4 | 2008 | Cluster | + | – | + | + | + |
| 5 | 2008 | Cluster | + | + | – | – | – |
| 6 | 2009 | Isolated | + | + | NA | NA | NA |
| 7 | 2009 | Isolated | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 8 | 2009 | Isolated | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 9 | 2009 | Isolated | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 10 | 2010 | Cluster | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 11 | 2010 | Cluster | + | – | + | + | – |
| 12 | 2010 | Cluster | + | – | – | + | – |
| 13 | 2010 | Cluster | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 14 | 2010 | Cluster | + | + | NA | NA | NA |
| 15 | 2010 | Isolated | + | – | – | + | – |
| 16 | 2010 | Isolated | + | + | + | + | – |
| 17 | 2010 | Isolated | + | – | + | + | – |
| 18 | 2010 | Isolated | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 19 | 2010 | Isolated | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 20 | 2010 | Isolated | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
| 21 | 2010 | Isolated | + | – | NA | NA | NA |
*RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; +, positive; –, negative; NA, sample not available.
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