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Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Research

Nipah Virus Encephalitis Reemergence, Bangladesh

Vincent P. Hsu*Comments to Author , Mohammed Jahangir Hossain†, Umesh D. Parashar*, Mohammed Monsur Ali‡, Thomas G. Ksiazek*, Ivan V. Kuzmin*, Michael Niezgoda*, Charles E. Rupprecht*, Joseph S. Bresee*, and Robert F. Breiman†
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Centre for Health and Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; ‡Office of Civil Surgeon, Naogaon, Bangladesh

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Table 2

Clinical characteristics of patients with probable and confirmed encephalitis cases, by case classification, Meherpur and Naogaon, Bangladesh, 2001 and 2003

Symptom Patients with
p value Total patients n (%)
Confirmed cases, n (%) Probable cases, n (%)
Fever 8 (100) 17 (100) 1.00 25 (100)
Altered level of consciousness 6 (75) 16 (94) 0.17 22 (88)
Headache 4 (50) 14 (82) 0.12 18 (72)
Cough 3 (38) 13 (76) 0.08 16 (64)
Dyspnea 2 (25) 14 (82) 0.01 16 (64)
Vomiting 4 (50) 9 (53) 0.61 13 (52)
Seizures 1 (13) 5 (29) 0.34 6 (24)
Diarrhea 0 (0) 3 (18) 0.30 3 (12)

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