Association of acute toxic encephalopathy with litchi consumption in an outbreak in Muzaffarpur, India, 2014: a case-control study

• Main Authors: Aakash Shrivastava, PhD (Author), Anil Kumar, MD (Author), Jerry D Thomas, MD (Author), Kayla F Laserson, ScD (Author), Gyan Bhushan, MD (Author), Melissa D Carter, PhD (Author), Mala Chhabra, MD (Author), Veena Mittal, MD (Author), Shashi Khare, MD (Author), James J Sejvar, MD (Author), Mayank Dwivedi, MD (Author), Samantha L Isenberg, PhD (Author), Rudolph Johnson, PhD (Author), James L Pirkle, MD (Author), Jon D Sharer, PhD (Author), Patricia L Hall, PhD (Author), Rajesh Yadav, MBBS (Author), Anoop Velayudhan, MBBS (Author), Mohan Papanna, MD (Author), Pankaj Singh (Author), D Somashekar, MD (Author), Arghya Pradhan, MBBS (Author), Kapil Goel, MD (Author), Rajesh Pandey, MBBS (Author), Mohan Kumar, MBBS (Author), Satish Kumar, MD (Author), Amit Chakrabarti, MD (Author), P Sivaperumal, PhD (Author), A Ramesh Kumar, PhD (Author), Joshua G Schier, MD (Author), Arthur Chang, MD (Author), Leigh Ann Graham, PhD (Author), Thomas P Mathews, PhD (Author), Darryl Johnson, PhD (Author), Liza Valentin, PhD (Author), Kathleen L Caldwell, PhD (Author), Jeffery M Jarrett, MS (Author), Leslie A Harden, MS (Author), Gary R Takeoka, PhD (Author), Suxiang Tong, PhD (Author), Krista Queen, PhD (Author), Clinton Paden, PhD (Author), Anne Whitney, PhD (Author), Dana L Haberling, MSPH (Author), Ram Singh, PhD (Author), Ravi Shankar Singh, MD (Author), Kenneth C Earhart, MD (Author), A C Dhariwal, MD (Author), L S Chauhan, DPH (Author), S Venkatesh, MD (Author), Padmini Srikantiah, DrMD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Background: Outbreaks of unexplained illness frequently remain under-investigated. In India, outbreaks of an acute neurological illness with high mortality among children occur annually in Muzaffarpur, the country's largest litchi cultivation region. In 2014, we aimed to investigate th...