... viral encephalitisRangaiah S Jayakeerthi*1, Raghava V Potula1, S Srinivasan2 and S Badrinath1Address: 1Department of Microbiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education ... Education and Research, Pondicherry – 605 006, India and 2Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Post-graduate Medical Education and Research, Pondicherry – 605 006, IndiaEmail: Rangaiah ... pre-dominant involvement of pediatric age group (92%) and the Male:Female ratio of 1.7:1 are in accordance with the age and sex distribution of the earlier epidemics of viralencephalitis in the endemic...