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...

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Autores principales: Sazzad, Hossain M.S., Luby, Stephen P., Ströher, Ute, Daszak, Peter, Sultana, Sharmin, Afroj, Sayma, Rahman, Mahmudur, Gurley, Emily S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015
Materias:
Dispatch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25625615
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2102.141129
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Sumario: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%) results suggested that screening questions could more quickly identify persons with Nipah virus encephalitis.

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