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Detection and genetic relationship of dengue virus sequences in seventeen-year-old paraffin-embedded samples from Cuba.
1 Dec 1999
Abstract excerpt
This study describes the use of the reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) to generate dengue 2 amplicons from paraffin-embedded autopsy tissues collected in Cuba 17 years ago. The presumptive diagnoses had been made only by clinical evolution without serologic confirmation. This study confirms once again that dengue 2 virus was directly associated with the fatal cases in children and...
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