Association of acute toxic encephalopathy with litchi consumption in an outbreak in Muzaffarpur, India, 2014: a case-control study

Association of acute toxic encephalopathy with litchi consumption in an outbreak in Muzaffarpur, India, 2014: a case-control study

Summary: Background: Outbreaks of unexplained illness frequently remain under-investigated. In India, outbreaks of an acute neurological illness with high mortality among children occur annually in Muzaffarpur, the country's largest litchi cultivation region. In 2014, we aimed to investigate t...

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Main Authors: Aakash Shrivastava, PhD, Anil Kumar, MD, Jerry D Thomas, MD, Kayla F Laserson, ScD, Gyan Bhushan, MD, Melissa D Carter, PhD, Mala Chhabra, MD, Veena Mittal, MD, Shashi Khare, MD, James J Sejvar, MD, Mayank Dwivedi, MD, Samantha L Isenberg, PhD, Rudolph Johnson, PhD, James L Pirkle, MD, Jon D Sharer, PhD, Patricia L Hall, PhD, Rajesh Yadav, MBBS, Anoop Velayudhan, MBBS, Mohan Papanna, MD, Pankaj Singh, D Somashekar, MD, Arghya Pradhan, MBBS, Kapil Goel, MD, Rajesh Pandey, MBBS, Mohan Kumar, MBBS, Satish Kumar, MD, Amit Chakrabarti, MD, P Sivaperumal, PhD, A Ramesh Kumar, PhD, Joshua G Schier, MD, Arthur Chang, MD, Leigh Ann Graham, PhD, Thomas P Mathews, PhD, Darryl Johnson, PhD, Liza Valentin, PhD, Kathleen L Caldwell, PhD, Jeffery M Jarrett, MS, Leslie A Harden, MS, Gary R Takeoka, PhD, Suxiang Tong, PhD, Krista Queen, PhD, Clinton Paden, PhD, Anne Whitney, PhD, Dana L Haberling, MSPH, Ram Singh, PhD, Ravi Shankar Singh, MD, Kenneth C Earhart, MD, A C Dhariwal, MD, L S Chauhan, DPH, S Venkatesh, MD, Padmini Srikantiah, DrMD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-04-01
Series:The Lancet Global Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214109X17300359

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