Journal article

Protecting children against Japanese encephalitis in Bali, Indonesia

Justin Im Ruchita Balasubramanian Ni Wayan Yastini I Gusti Ngurah Made Suwarba Ayu Rai Andayani Vinod Bura Hyon Jin Jeon John D Clemens Florian Marks

Volume : 0 Nomor : 0 Published : 2018, June

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Abstrak

Japanese encephalitis is a zoonosis and a mosquito-borne flaviviral disease. Culex species mosquitoes thrive in rice fields and transmit the virus from their natural hosts, primarily pigs, to humans; children younger than 15 years who reside in endemic areas are particularly at risk of infection. Japanese encephalitis virus infection is relatively rare;1 however, when clinical manifestations do occur, the prognosis is often poor, with a third of infected individuals retaining neurological sequelae, and a third dying from the infection.