Incidence of Japanese Encephalitis among Acute Encephalitis Syndrome Cases in West Bengal, India
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Incidence of Japanese Encephalitis among Acute Encephalitis Syndrome Cases in West Bengal, India
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the most important cause of acute and epidemic viral encephalitis. Every year sporadic JE cases are reported from the various districts of West Bengal, indicating its endemicity in this state. JE vaccination programme has been undertaken by the State Health Department of West Bengal. This study was aimed at seeing the present scenario of J...
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عنوان ژورنال: BioMed Research International
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2314-6133,2314-6141
DOI: 10.1155/2013/896749