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Volume 17, Number 5—May 2011
Letter

Japanese Encephalitis, Tibet, China

Yi-Xing Li1, Ming-Hua Li1, Shi-Hong Fu, Wei-Xin Chen, Qi-Yong Liu, Hai-Lin Zhang, Wa Da, Song-Lin Hu, Sang Dan La Mu, Ju Bai, Zun-Dong Yin, Hong-Yue Jiang, Yu-Hong Guo, Dun Zhu Duo Ji, Hui-Mei Xu, Ge Li, Gu Gu Cuo Mu, Hui-Ming Luo, Jing-Lin Wang, Jun Wang, Xiu-Min Ye, Zhuo Ma Yang Jin, Wei Zhang, Gui-Jun Ning, Huan-Yu Wang, Gui-Chang Li, Jian Yong, Xiao-Feng Liang, and Guo-Dong LiangComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliations: National Immunization Programme, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, People’s Republic of China (Y.-X. Li, Z.-D. Yin, H.-M. Luo, G.-J. Ning, X.-F. Liang); Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (M.-H. Li, S.-H. Fu, W.-X. Chen, H.-Y. Jiang, J.-L. Wang, H.-Y. Wang, G.-D. Liang); National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing (Q.-Y. Liu, Y.-H. Guo, J. Wang, G.-C. Li); Yunnan Institute of Endemic Disease Control and Prevention, Yunnan, People’s Republic of China (H.-L. Zhang); Tibet Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tibet, People’s Republic of China (W. Da, D.Z.D. Ji, X.-M. Ye); Nyingchi Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tibet (S.-L. Hu, H.-M. Xu, Z.M.Y. Jin); Medog County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tibet, (S.D.L. Mu, G. Li, W. Zhang, J. Yong); Mainling County Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tibet (J. Bai, G.G.C. Mu)

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Table

Results from testing of mosquitoes, humans, and pigs for JEV, Nyingchi area, Tibet, People’s Republic of China, 2009*

Collection sites Mosquitoes
 Humans
 Pigs
No. collected Culex tritaeniorhynchus, no. (%) No. samples Neutralizing antibody titers against JEV >10, no. (%) No. samples JEV IgM antibody positive, no. (%)
Mainling County 653 0 100 22 (22.0) 30 17 (56.7)
Medog County
 3,436
 2,442 (71.1)†
148
 46 (31.1)
36
 5 (13.9)
Total 4,089 2,442 (59.7) 248 68 (27.4) 66 22 (33.3)

*JEV, Japanese encephalitis virus; Ig, immunoglobulin.
†Pool was positive for JEV by PCR.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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