Vaccine strategies for the control and prevention of Japanese encephalitis in Mainland China, 1951-2011.

• Main Authors: Xiaoyan Gao (Author), Xiaolong Li (Author), Minghua Li (Author), Shihong Fu (Author), Huanyu Wang (Author), Zhi Lu (Author), Yuxi Cao (Author), Ying He (Author), Wuyang Zhu (Author), Tingting Zhang (Author), Ernest A Gould (Author), Guodong Liang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Japanese encephalitis (JE) is arguably one of the most serious viral encephalitis diseases worldwide. China has a long history of high prevalence of Japanese encephalitis, with thousands of cases reported annually and incidence rates often exceeding 15/100,000. In global terms, the scale of outbreak...