Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018
Incidence of Japanese Encephalitis amongst acute encephalitis syndrome.: A report from a tertiary care hospital.
Dr Kangkana Baruah, Prof Achinta Kumar Borthakur
Abstract :
Background & objectives: Japanese Encephalitis, an endemic mosquito borne viral disease, have regular outeaks in Assam every year during
the hot and humid summer monsoon seasons. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a major public health problem in India because of high mortality rate and
residual neuropsychiatric damage in the survivors. The present study was undertaken to investigate JE positivity amongst patients admitted with acute
encephalitis syndrome (AES) in southern part of Assam and adjoining states and different parameters like demographic profile of JE amongst the
population, seasonal and geographical distribution of JE cases from a tertiary care hospital in South Assam with their changing trends related to it.
Methods: It was a hospital–based prospective cross–sectional study conducted from the month of july’2013 to the month of September’2015 in the
department of Microbiology, Silchar Medical College, Assam. CereoSpinalFluid and serum samples were collected from clinically suspected
AES cases and tested for IgM antibody against JE by JE MAC ELISA.
Result: Out of total 341 AES cases ,77 ( 22.5 %) were positive for JE. Detection rate of JE was 35.5%, 12.7%, and 22.6% in the years 2013, 2014,
and 2015 respectively. The JE positivity was much higher(26.27%) in adult, than in paediatric population(14.27%).Significant numbers of JE cases
were found to be clustered around the monsoon season.
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DOI : 10.36106/ijsr
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Dr Kangkana Baruah, Prof Achinta Kumar Borthakur, Incidence of Japanese Encephalitis amongst acute encephalitis syndrome.: A report from a tertiary care hospital., INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-8 | August-2018
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Dr Kangkana Baruah, Prof Achinta Kumar Borthakur, Incidence of Japanese Encephalitis amongst acute encephalitis syndrome.: A report from a tertiary care hospital., INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-8 | August-2018
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