{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Pattabiraman C"],"funding":["DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance"],"pagination":["e0225121"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9045363"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["10(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Brain infections are a major public health problem in India and other parts of the world, causing both mortality and lifelong disability. Even after a thorough investigation, many cases remain without an etiological diagnosis. Primate erythroparvovirus 1 (B19V) has been identified as a pathogen associated with undiagnosed meningoencephalitis in other settings, including the United Kingdom, France, and Latvia. Here, we reported 13/403 (3.2%) B19V PCR positive cases of meningoencephalitis in West Bengal, India. The positive samples were mostly from children (10/13, 76.92%) and presented as a spectrum consisting of acute encephalitis (7/13), acute meningoencephalitis (3/13), and meningitis (3/13). Of the 13 cases, 8/13 (61.5%) had no known etiology and 5/13 (38.5%) had a previous etiological "],"journal":["Microbiology spectrum"],"pubmed_title":["Identification and Genomic Characterization of Parvovirus B19V Genotype 3 Viruses from Cases of Meningoencephalitis in West Bengal, India."],"pmcid":["PMC9045363"],"funding_grant_id":["IA/E/15/1/502336"],"pubmed_authors":["Ghosh A","Rasheed R","Sreenivas D","Sudarshan S","Pattabiraman C","Desai A","Pal A","Vasanthapuram R","Prasad P","George AK","Hameed SKS","Bandyopadhyay B"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Identification and Genomic Characterization of Parvovirus B19V Genotype 3 Viruses from Cases of Meningoencephalitis in West Bengal, India.","description":"Brain infections are a major public health problem in India and other parts of the world, causing both mortality and lifelong disability. Even after a thorough investigation, many cases remain without an etiological diagnosis. Primate erythroparvovirus 1 (B19V) has been identified as a pathogen associated with undiagnosed meningoencephalitis in other settings, including the United Kingdom, France, and Latvia. Here, we reported 13/403 (3.2%) B19V PCR positive cases of meningoencephalitis in West Bengal, India. The positive samples were mostly from children (10/13, 76.92%) and presented as a spectrum consisting of acute encephalitis (7/13), acute meningoencephalitis (3/13), and meningitis (3/13). Of the 13 cases, 8/13 (61.5%) had no known etiology and 5/13 (38.5%) had a previous etiological ","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Apr","modification":"2026-05-09T23:41:04.761Z","creation":"2025-04-04T19:32:32.846Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9045363","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35412386"],"doi":["10.1128/spectrum.02251-21"]}}