On the transmission pattern of Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) in India

Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in five districts of Karnataka state, India. Recent reports of the spread of disease to neighboring districts of the Western Ghats, namely Chamarajanagar district in Karnataka, Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad and...

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Autores principales: Murhekar, Manoj V., Kasabi, Gudadappa S., Mehendale, Sanjay M., Mourya, Devendra T., Yadav, Pragya D., Tandale, Babasaheb V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4545326/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26286631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-015-0066-9
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author Murhekar, Manoj V.
Kasabi, Gudadappa S.
Mehendale, Sanjay M.
Mourya, Devendra T.
Yadav, Pragya D.
Tandale, Babasaheb V.
author_facet Murhekar, Manoj V.
Kasabi, Gudadappa S.
Mehendale, Sanjay M.
Mourya, Devendra T.
Yadav, Pragya D.
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description Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in five districts of Karnataka state, India. Recent reports of the spread of disease to neighboring districts of the Western Ghats, namely Chamarajanagar district in Karnataka, Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad and Malappuram districts in Kerala, and Pali village in Goa are a cause for concern. Besides vaccination of the affected population, establishing an event-based surveillance system for monkey deaths in the national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests of the Western Ghats would help detect the disease early and thereby help implement appropriate control measures. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40249-015-0066-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-45453262015-08-23 On the transmission pattern of Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) in India Murhekar, Manoj V. Kasabi, Gudadappa S. Mehendale, Sanjay M. Mourya, Devendra T. Yadav, Pragya D. Tandale, Babasaheb V. Infect Dis Poverty Letter to the Editor Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever, is endemic in five districts of Karnataka state, India. Recent reports of the spread of disease to neighboring districts of the Western Ghats, namely Chamarajanagar district in Karnataka, Nilgiri district in Tamil Nadu, Wayanad and Malappuram districts in Kerala, and Pali village in Goa are a cause for concern. Besides vaccination of the affected population, establishing an event-based surveillance system for monkey deaths in the national parks, wildlife sanctuaries and reserve forests of the Western Ghats would help detect the disease early and thereby help implement appropriate control measures. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40249-015-0066-9) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2015-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4545326/ /pubmed/26286631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-015-0066-9 Text en © Murhekar et al. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Yadav, Pragya D.
Tandale, Babasaheb V.
On the transmission pattern of Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) in India
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