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Efficiency of dengue serotype 2 virus strains to infect and disseminate in Aedes aegypti.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 May 2003
Armstrong Philip M, Rico-Hesse Rebeca
Abstract excerpt
Dengue serotype 2 (DEN-2) viruses with the potential to cause dengue hemorrhagic fever have been shown to belong to the Southeast (SE) Asian genotype. These viruses appear to be rapidly displacing the American genotype of DEN-2 in the Western Hemisphere. To determine whether distinct genotypes of DEN-2 virus are better adapted to mosquito transmission, we classified 15 viral strains of DEN-2 phylogenetically and...
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