Open AccessIncidence Rate of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome without Specific Treatment in India and Nepal
Author(s) -
Nagabhushana Rao Potharaju
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/0970-0218.103473
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , population , pediatrics , environmental health , mathematics , geometry
A performance target (PT) for the incidence rate (IR) of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) was not defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) due to lack of data. There is no specific treatment for ~90% of the AES cases.