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cord-339679-9hghy9pd	Gurley, Emily S.	Person-to-Person Transmission of Nipah Virus in a Bangladeshi Community	2007-07-17		.txt	text/plain	4023	191	52	A probable case-patient was defi ned as a patient with fever and mental status changes who lived or worked in the same village as a confi rmed case-patient and from whom either serum or cerebrospinal fl uid (CSF) was not available (i.e., because the patient died before specimen could be collected) or from whom a negative result was obtained from a sample collected <10 days after illness onset but collection of subsequent specimens was impossible (17) . To evaluate the possibility of asymptomatic infections, we asked persons with a history of close contact with a patient with Nipah virus-like illness to provide a blood specimen for serologic testing (7, 13) . Findings from the case-control study, which showed a 6-fold increased risk for infection for those who reported contact with patient F, a negative association with illness after handwashing, and specifi c exposures to ill persons linked to transmission, confi rm that exposure to ill persons spread the outbreak.	./cache/cord-339679-9hghy9pd.txt	./txt/cord-339679-9hghy9pd.txt