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Nipah virus disease

MedGen UID:
728863
•Concept ID:
C1320202
•
Disease or Syndrome
Synonyms: Infection caused by Nipah virus; Infection due to Nipah virus; Nipah encephalitis; Nipah fever; Nipah virus infectious disease
SNOMED CT: Infection due to Nipah virus (406597005); Infection caused by Nipah virus (406597005)
 
Monarch Initiative: MONDO:0020499
Orphanet: ORPHA99825

Definition

Nipah virus disease, caused by the Nipah virus, is a recently discovered zoonotic disease characterized by fever, constitutional symptoms and encephalitis, sometimes accompanied by respiratory illness. [from ORDO]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVNipah virus disease

Professional guidelines

PubMed

A Brighton Collaboration standardized template with key considerations for a benefit/risk assessment for a soluble glycoprotein vaccine to prevent disease caused by Nipah or Hendra viruses.
Eldridge JH, Egan MA, Matassov D, Hamm S, Hermida L, Chen T, Tremblay M, Sciotto-Brown S, Xu R, Dimitrov A, Smith ER, Gurwith M, Chen RT; Benefit-Risk Assessment of VAccines by TechnolOgy Working Group BRAVATO, ex-V3SWG)
Vaccine 2021 Sep 7;39(38):5436-5441. Epub 2021 Aug 7 doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.07.030. PMID: 34373117
Viruses and disease: emerging concepts for prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
Herrington CS, Coates PJ, Duprex WP
J Pathol 2015 Jan;235(2):149-52. doi: 10.1002/path.4476. PMID: 25366544Free PMC Article
A treatment for and vaccine against the deadly Hendra and Nipah viruses.
Broder CC, Xu K, Nikolov DB, Zhu Z, Dimitrov DS, Middleton D, Pallister J, Geisbert TW, Bossart KN, Wang LF
Antiviral Res 2013 Oct;100(1):8-13. Epub 2013 Jul 6 doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.06.012. PMID: 23838047Free PMC Article

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Outbreak Investigation of Nipah Virus Disease in Kerala, India, 2018.
Arunkumar G, Chandni R, Mourya DT, Singh SK, Sadanandan R, Sudan P, Bhargava B; Nipah Investigators People and Health Study Group
J Infect Dis 2019 May 24;219(12):1867-1878. doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiy612. PMID: 30364984
Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife.
Daszak P, Cunningham AA, Hyatt AD
Acta Trop 2001 Feb 23;78(2):103-16. doi: 10.1016/s0001-706x(00)00179-0. PMID: 11230820

Diagnosis

Animal models of disease shed light on Nipah virus pathogenesis and transmission.
de Wit E, Munster VJ
J Pathol 2015 Jan;235(2):196-205. doi: 10.1002/path.4444. PMID: 25229234Free PMC Article

Prognosis

Animal models of disease shed light on Nipah virus pathogenesis and transmission.
de Wit E, Munster VJ
J Pathol 2015 Jan;235(2):196-205. doi: 10.1002/path.4444. PMID: 25229234Free PMC Article

Clinical prediction guides

Animal models of disease shed light on Nipah virus pathogenesis and transmission.
de Wit E, Munster VJ
J Pathol 2015 Jan;235(2):196-205. doi: 10.1002/path.4444. PMID: 25229234Free PMC Article

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