Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Research
Nipah Virus Encephalitis Reemergence, Bangladesh
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) |