Volume 10, Number 12—December 2004
Research
Nipah Virus Encephalitis Reemergence, Bangladesh
Vincent P. Hsu*
, 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†
, 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†
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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