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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 17, Issue 5, Pages 907-909Publisher
CENTERS DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION
DOI: 10.3201/eid1705.100968
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- Indian Council of Medical Research, Delhi, India
- Government of West Bengal
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An intrafamilial outbreak in West Bengal, India, involving 5 deaths and person-to-person transmission was attributed to Nipah virus. Full-genome sequence of Nipah virus (18,252 nt) amplified from lung tissue showed 99.2% nt and 99.8% aa identity with the Bangladesh-2004 isolate, suggesting a common source of the virus.
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