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Complete nucleotide sequence analysis of a Brazilian dengue virus type 2 strain.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 1 Oct 2002
dos Santos Flávia Barreto, Miagostovich Marize Pereira, Nogueira Rita Maria Ribeiro, Edgil Dianna, Schatzmayr Hermann Gonçalves, Riley Lee W, Harris Eva
Abstract excerpt
In the last decade, dengue fever (DF) in Brazil has been recognized as an important public health problem, and an increasing number of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) cases have been reported since the introduction of dengue virus type 2 (DEN-2) into the country in 1990. In order to analyze the complete genome sequence of a DEN-2 Brazilian strain (BR64022/98), we designed primers to amplify contiguous segments of...
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