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Volume 23, Number 11—November 2017
Dispatch

Virulence of Japanese Encephalitis Virus Genotypes I and III, Taiwan

Yi-Chin Fan1, Jen-Wei Lin1, Shu-Ying Liao, Jo-Mei Chen, Yi-Ying Chen, Hsien-Chung Chiu, Chen-Chang Shih, Chi-Ming Chen, Ruey-Yi Chang, Chwan-Chuen King, Wei-June Chen, Yi-Ting Ko, Chao-Chin Chang, and Shyan-Song ChiouComments to Author 
Author affiliations: National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan (Y.-C. Fan, J.-W. Lin, S.-Y. Liao, J.-M. Chen, Y.-Y. Chen, C.-M. Chen, Y.-T. Ko, C.-C. Chang, S.-S. Chiou); National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan (H.-C. Chiu); Tri-Service General Hospital (H.-C. Chiu); Taiwan Mennonite Christian Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan (C.-C. Shih); Tungs’ Taichung MetroHarbor Hospital, Taichung (C.-M. Chen); National Dong Hwa University, Hualien (R.-Y. Chang); National Taiwan University, Taipei (C.-C. King); Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan (W.-J. Chen)

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Table 1

Descriptive characteristics of populations for study of virulence of JEV genotypes I and III, Taiwan*

Characteristic Region
 p value†
Changhua Taipei Pingtung Miaoli Taichung Hualien Taichung Hualien
Year 1994 1995 1999 2000 2010 2010 2012 2012 ND
Circulating JEV GIII GIII GIII GIII GI GI GI GI ND
No. participants 795 886 571 274 510 754 527 300 ND
No. (%) vaccinated 36 41 41 33 48 48 49 46 <0.05
Average age, y‡ 42.8 40.9 47.1 51.3 49.6 48.1 52.0 49.2 <0.05
Male sex, % 45 52 47 54 50 48 52 49 >0.05

*JEV, Japanese encephalitis virus; ND, no data.
†Analyzed by using 1-way analysis of variance.
‡Range 40.9–52.0 y.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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