Prevalence of antibodies to Japanese encephalitis virus among pigs in Bali and East Java, Indonesia, 2008

• Main Authors: Atsushi Yamanaka, Kris Cahyo Mulyatno, Helen Susilowati, Eryk Hendrianto, Takako Utsumi, Mochamad Amin, Maria Inge Lusida, Soegeng Soegijanto, Eiji Konishi
• Format: Article PeerReviewed
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: National Institute of Health 2010
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RC Internal medicine
• Online Access: http://repository.unair.ac.id/100182/1/Prevalence%20of%20antibodies%20to%20Japanese%20encephalitis%20virus%20among%20pigs%20in%20Bali%20and%20East%20Java%2C%20Indonesia%2C%202008.pdf; http://repository.unair.ac.id/100182/2/Prevalence%20of%20antibodies.pdf; http://repository.unair.ac.id/100182/3/Prevalence%20of%20antibodies%20to%20japanese%20encephalitis%20virus%20among%20pigs%20in%20bali%20and%20East%20Java%2C%20Indonesia%2C%202008.pdf; http://repository.unair.ac.id/100182/; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20093765/
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a fatal disease in Asia. Pigs are considered to be the effective amplifying host for JEV in the peridomestic environment. Bali Island and Java Island in Indonesia provide a model to assess the effect of pigs on JEV transmission, since the pig density is nearly 10...