Open AccessChanging paradigm in the epidemiology of Japanese encephalitis in a non-endemic region
Author(s) -
Philip Samuel,
V. Thenmozhi,
M Muniaraj,
D Ramesh,
S Victor Jerald Leo,
T. Balaji,
K. Venkatasubramani,
Nagaraj Jaganathasamy,
R Paramasivan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of vector borne diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.581
H-Index - 41
ISSN - 0972-9062
DOI - 10.4103/0972-9062.249130
Subject(s) - japanese encephalitis , transmission (telecommunications) , veterinary medicine , epidemiology , vector (molecular biology) , biology , culex tritaeniorhynchus , disease , encephalitis , demography , geography , virology , virus , medicine , recombinant dna , biochemistry , sociology , gene , electrical engineering , engineering , pathology
Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a mosquito-borne zoonotic disease. The JE virus (JEV) does not cause any disease among its natural hosts and transmission continues through mosquitoes belonging to Culex vishnui subgroup. This study was aimed to investigate the prevalence of JEV in mosquitoes and humans in the Thanjavur district, a non-endemic region for JE, in Tamil Nadu, by using standard available assays.