Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Letter
West Nile Virus Infection, Assam, India
Abdul M. Khan
, Prafulla Dutta, Abdul M. Khan, Pritom Chowdhury, Jani Borah, Pabitra Doloi, and Jagadish Mahanta
, Prafulla Dutta, Abdul M. Khan, Pritom Chowdhury, Jani Borah, Pabitra Doloi, and Jagadish Mahanta
Table
Incidence of JEV and WNV infections among patients with acute encephalitis syndrome, Assam, India*
| District | No. with acute encephalitis syndrome | No. positive/no. tested |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| JEV | WNV | ||
| Dhemaji | 1 | 0/1 | 0/0 |
| Dibrugarh | 29 | 9/29 | 6/29 |
| Golaghat | 81 | 47/81 | 2/18 |
| Jorhat | 15 | 8/15 | 0/15 |
| Lakhimpur | 6 | 5/6 | 0/6 |
| Sivasagar | 30 | 9/30 | 2/30 |
| Tinsukia |
5 |
2/5 |
2/5 |
| Total | 167 | 80/167 | 12/103† |
*JEV, Japanese encephalitis virus; WNV, West Nile virus.
†One person was not included because the address could not be verified.
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