Clinical & epidemiological significance of Kyasanur forest disease

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dc.contributor.authorMunivenkatappa, Aen_US
dc.contributor.authorSahay, RRen_US
dc.contributor.authorYadav, PDen_US
dc.contributor.authorViswanathan, Ren_US
dc.contributor.authorMourya, DTen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-10T01:39:27Z
dc.date.available2020-04-10T01:39:27Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.description.abstractKyasanur forest disease (KFD) is a known viral haemorrhagic fever in India, for the last 60 years. However, in recent years, the change in epidemiological profile of the disease has suggested that it is now time to consider KFD as an emerging tropical disease in India. The preference should be to educate not only the villagers where it is being reported or detected but also to public health experts, veterinarians, forest officials and medical professionals to pay attention while seeing a patient overlapping with endemic diseases such as Japanese encephalitis, West Nile, dengue, chikungunya, malaria and tuberculosis. Although the existence of KFD is known for a long time, updated understanding of its clinical profile in humans is still limited. This article describes in detail the clinical presentation of KFD reported till date. It also highlights geographical distribution of the disease, risk factors for virus transmission, biochemical/haematological findings and control measures. There is an urgent need for research on KFD, particularly for understanding biphasic nature of illness, development of cost-effective diagnostic tools, utility of non-invasive samples for diagnosis and development of new vaccines.en_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsBangalore Unit, ICMR-National Institute of Virology, Bengaluru, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsMaximum Containment Laboratory, Pune, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsDiagnostic Virology Group, Pune, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.affiliationsICMR-National Institute of Virology, Pune, Indiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationMunivenkatappa A, Sahay RR, Yadav PD, Viswanathan R, Mourya DT. Clinical & epidemiological significance of Kyasanur forest disease. Indian Journal of Medical Research. 2018 Aug; 148(2): 145-150en_US
dc.identifier.issn0971-5916
dc.identifier.issn0975-9174
dc.identifier.placeIndiaen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/195629
dc.languageenen_US
dc.publisherIndian Council of Medical Researchen_US
dc.relation.issuenumber2en_US
dc.relation.volume148en_US
dc.source.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_688_17en_US
dc.subjectArbovirusen_US
dc.subjectbiphasicen_US
dc.subjecthaemorrhagic feveren_US
dc.subjectKyasanur forest diseaseen_US
dc.subjectvaccineen_US
dc.titleClinical & epidemiological significance of Kyasanur forest diseaseen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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