Nipah Virus Contamination of Hospital Surfaces during Outbreaks, Bangladesh, 2013–2014
Md Zakiul Hassan
, Hossain M.S. Sazzad, Stephen P. Luby, Katharine Sturm-Ramirez, Mejbah Uddin Bhuiyan, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Md Muzahidul Islam, Ute Ströher, Sharmin Sultana, Mohammad Abdullah Heel Kafi, Peter Daszak, Mahmudur Rahman, and Emily S. Gurley
Author affiliations: icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh (M.Z. Hassan, H.M.S. Sazzad, K. Sturm-Ramirez, M.U. Bhuiyan, M.Z. Rahman, M.M. Islam, M.A.H. Kafi, E.S. Gurley); Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA (S.P. Luby); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (K. Sturm-Ramirez, U. Ströher); Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka (S. Sultana, M. Rahman); EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA (P. Daszak)
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Figure 2. Timing of Nipah virus detection in oral swab and surface swab samples in relation to illness onset for 12 patients with laboratory-confirmed Nipah identified in hospitals, Bangladesh, December 2013–April 2014. Nearby surface swabs were not collected for 6 patients (nos. 7–12).
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