Amrita Pattanaik

Manipal Academy of Higher Education | MAHE · Manipal Centre for Virus Research

SARS-CoV-2 infection frequently causes neurological impairment in both adults and children. Recent publications have described significant aspects of the viral pathophysiology associated with neurological dysfunction. In theory, neurological manifestations following SARS-CoV-2 infection may be caused directly by the effects of the virus infecting t...

Since the onset of the pandemic, neurological manifestations of COVID-19 are increasingly being reported in the scientific literature. However, since these manifestations are not the primary symptoms, SARS-CoV-2 is not being considered the etiological agent in most cases. The primary objective of this study was to screen for anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibod...

Wild reservoirs of Japanese encephalitis virus are under‐studied globally, which presents critical knowledge gaps for JEV epidemiology and infection ecology despite decades of received wisdom regarding this high‐impact mosquito‐borne virus. As a result, ardeid birds, generally understood to be the primary reservoirs for JEV, as well as other waterb...

Background Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a zoonotic mosquito-borne virus that causes a significant burden of disease across Asia, particularly in India, with high mortality in children. JEV circulates in wild ardeid birds and domestic pig reservoirs, both of which generate sufficiently high viraemias to infect vector mosquitoes, which can th...

Wild reservoirs of Japanese encephalitis virus are under-studied globally, which presents critical knowledge gaps for JEV infection ecology despite decades of received wisdom regarding this high-impact mosquito-borne virus. As a result, ardeid birds, generally understood to be the primary reservoirs for JEV, as well as other waterbirds occupying la...

Japanese encephalitis constitutes a significant burden of disease across Asia, particularly in India, with high mortality in children. This zoonotic mosquito-borne disease is caused by the Flavivirus, Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), and circulates in wild ardeid bird and domestic pig reservoirs both of which generate sufficiently high viremias t...

Karnataka, a state in south India, reported its first case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection on March 8, 2020, more than a month after the first case was reported in India. We used a combination of contact tracing and genomic epidemiology to trace the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the state up until May 21, 2020 (1...

Karnataka, a state in south India, reported its first case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on March 8, 2020, more than a month after the first case was reported in India. We used a combination of contact tracing and genomic epidemiology to trace the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the state up until May 21, 2020 (1578 cases)...

Purpose of review: Rabies is virtually always fatal; however, it is nearly 100% preventable with timely and appropriate prophylactic immunization. This review summarizes the recently revised WHO guidelines for rabies prophylaxis published in 2018, following a scientific review by a strategic advisory group of experts on immunization. The scientifi...

Background: Acinetobacter species cause hospital outbreaks and are often multidrug resistant. A wide range of resistance determinants make them successful nosocomial pathogens. In the present study, authors have identified and speciated Acinetobacter from various clinical specimens by a simplified phenotypic identification scheme determined their a...