Infections among Contacts of Patients with Nipah Virus, India

• Published in: Emerging infectious diseases Vol. 25; no. 5; pp. 1007 - 1010
• Main Authors: Kumar, C.P. Girish, Sugunan, Attayur P., Yadav, Pragya, Kurup, Karishma Krishna, Aarathee, Renjith, Manickam, Ponnaiah, Bhatnagar, Tarun, Radhakrishnan, Chandni, Thomas, Beena, Kumar, Akhilesh, Jayasree, Jayasree, Philomina, Bina, Kumar, K.G. Sajeeth, Thulaseedharan, N.K., Gupta, Nivedita, Rajendran, R., Saritha, R.L., Mourya, Devendra T., Gangakhedkar, Raman R., Murhekar, Manoj V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases 01.05.2019; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Bats (Animals); Child; contact tracing; Disease Outbreaks; Dispatch; Female; healthcare workers; Henipavirus Infections - epidemiology; Henipavirus Infections - transmission; Henipavirus Infections - virology; Humans; Immunoglobulin G; India; India - epidemiology; Infection; Infections among Contacts of Patients with Nipah Virus, India; Male; Marburg virus disease; Medical personnel; Middle Aged; Nipah virus; Nipah Virus - classification; Nipah Virus - genetics; Nipah Virus - immunology; Public Health Surveillance; subclinical infection; Swine; viruses; Young Adult; Zoonoses; India; Bangladesh; Malaysia; Singapore; subclinical infection; viruses; Nipah virus; contact tracing; healthcare workers; India

We conducted a serosurvey of 155 healthcare workers and 124 household and community members who had close contact with 18 patients who had laboratory-confirmed Nipah virus infections in Kerala, India. We detected 3 subclinical infections; 2 persons had IgM and IgG and 1 only IgM against Nipah virus.