To the Editor: We write in response to the excellent review by Allen and colleagues1 and to highlight the recent introduction of national surveillance for Japanese encephalitis by the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) (www.apsu.org.au).
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- 1. Allen S, Cooper CM, Taranath A, et al. Japanese encephalitis virus: changing the clinical landscape of encephalitis in Australia. Med J Aust 2023; 218: 344‐347. https://www.mja.com.au/journal/2023/218/8/japanese‐encephalitis‐virus‐changing‐clinical‐landscape‐encephalitis‐australia
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- 6. Yakob L, Hu W, Frentiu FD, et al. Japanese encephalitis emergence in Australia: the potential population at risk. Clin Infect Dis 2023; 76: 335‐337.
- 7. Mackenzie JS, Smith DW, Speers DJ. Japanese encephalitis disease: overview of the virus, its risk to Australia and the need for better surveillance. Intern Med J 2022; 52: 2029‐2033.
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The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU) is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance Section (CDESS). Elizabeth Elliott is supported by a Medical Research Future Fund of Australia Next Generation Fellowship (#1135959). The funders of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the manuscript.
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