Seroprevalence of Common Viral Diseases: A Hospital Based Study from Amritsar, India

A Seroprevalence Survey of Common Viral Infections Among Suspected Cases Attending Tertiary Care Hospital in Amritsar District of Punjab, India

“…For both the infections adult age group, 21 -40 years (60/127 chikV positive cases and 995/2178 dengue positive cases) appeared to be most susceptible age group. Similar findings were observed in the study done by Singh et al, [8] Sandhya BK et al, [20] Sood [19] and Mohanty et al [21] However, the results contradicted with some of the studies done elsewhere in India, who reported the paediatric age group as the most vulnerable when compared with adults. [22][23] CMV is found universally throughout all the geographical locations and in the areas of low socioeconomic conditions.…”

“…This also shows the improvement at clinical diagnosis level in differentiating between chikungunya and dengue infections. [12][13] The ChikV was slightly more prevalent in females (54%) as compared to the males (46%) supported by other findings by Balasubramaniam et al [14] and Dwibedi et al, [15] but in contrast with the pattern seen be Kalawat et al [16] and Singh et al [8] However, the males (64%) outnumbered females (36%) in Den V positivity. Similar pattern observed by other researchers.…”

“…The case was an imported case of Chikungunya from Delhi. [10] In comparison to an earlier study from same laboratory [8] that received only 20 chikungunya suspected cases and 2709 dengue suspected cases, the present study received 373 chikungunya suspected cases (127 positive) and 3160 dengue suspected cases (2178 positive) from May 2016 till December 2016. This is much higher than many other Indian studies.…”

“…Similar pattern observed by other researchers. [8,[17][18][19][20] However, this may be the representation of all the patients who visited the healthcare system to seek medical care rather than the truly infected population. For both the infections adult age group, 21 -40 years (60/127 chikV positive cases and 995/2178 dengue positive cases) appeared to be most susceptible age group.…”

“…There are, however, very limited studies reporting the incidences of viral diseases in the northern parts of India. [6][7][8][9] With this perspective the present study was conducted to diagnose the various occurrences and outbreaks of viral diseases mainly chikungunya, cytomegalovirus, dengue, hepatitis A, B, C, E, herpes simplex 1, 2 and rubella, in Amritsar and neighbouring districts of Punjab along with the demographic and geographical data of the patients.…”