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Molecular epidemiology of type 1 and 2 dengue viruses in Brazil from 1988 to 2001.
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas - 1 Jun 2005
Pires Neto R J, Lima D M, de Paula S O, Lima C M, Rocco I M, Fonseca B A L
Abstract excerpt
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection that in recent decades has become a major international public health concern. Epidemic dengue fever reemerged in Brazil in 1981. Since 1990 more than one dengue virus serotype has been circulating in this tropical country and increasing rates of dengue hemorrhagic fever and dengue shock syndrome have been detected every year. Some evidence supports the association...
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