Exposure-Based Screening for Nipah Virus Encephalitis, Bangladesh

Exposure-Based Screening for Nipah Virus Encephalitis, Bangladesh

We measured the performance of exposure screening questions to identify Nipah virus encephalitis in hospitalized encephalitis patients during the 2012–13 Nipah virus season in Bangladesh. The sensitivity (93%), specificity (82%), positive predictive value (37%), and negative predictive value (99%) r...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hossain M.S. Sazzad, Stephen P. Luby, Ute Ströher, Peter Daszak, Sharmin Sultana, Sayma Afroj, Mahmudur Rahman, Emily S. Gurley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015-02-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
Nipah virus
NiV
encephalitis
Nipah encephalitis
surveillance
screening
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/2/14-1129_article

Internet

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/21/2/14-1129_article

Similar Items