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Molecular epidemiology of autochthonous dengue virus strains circulating in Mexico.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2011
Rivera-Osorio Pilar, Vaughan Gilberto, Ramírez-González Jose Ernesto, Fonseca-Coronado Salvador, Ruíz-Tovar Karina, Cruz-Rivera Mayra Yolanda, Ruíz-Pacheco Juan Alberto, Vázquez-Pichardo Mauricio, Carpio-Pedroza Juan Carlos, Cázares Fernando, Escobar-Gutiérrez Alejandro
Abstract excerpt
Dengue virus (DENV) is the most important arthropod-borne viral infection in humans. Here, the genetic relatedness among autochthonous DENV Mexican isolates was assessed. Phylogenetic and median-joining network analyses showed that viral strains recovered from different geographic locations are genetically related and relatively homogeneous, exhibiting limited nucleotide diversity.
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