• DOI:10.1002/RMV.495
Corpus ID: 32814428

Kyasanur forest disease: an epidemiological view in India

@article{Pattnaik2006KyasanurFD,
  title={Kyasanur forest disease: an epidemiological view in India},
  author={Priyabrata Pattnaik},
  journal={Reviews in Medical Virology},
  year={2006},
  volume={16}
}

• Priyabrata Pattnaik
• Published 2006
• Biology, Medicine
• Reviews in Medical Virology

Kyasanur forest disease (KFD) was first recognised as a febrile illness in the Shimoga district of Karnataka state of India. The causative agent, KFD virus (KFDV), is a highly pathogenic member in the family Flaviviridae, producing a haemorrhagic disease in infected human beings. KFD is a zoonotic disease and has so far been localised only in a southern part of India. The exact cause of its emergence in the mid 1950s is not known. A variant of KFDV, characterised serologically and genetically… Expand

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