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First report of multiple lineages of dengue viruses type 1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Virology journal - 3 Aug 2011
dos Santos Flavia B, Nogueira Fernanda B, Castro Márcia G, Nunes Priscila Cg, de Filippis Ana Maria B, Faria Nieli Rc, Simões Jaqueline Bs, Sampaio Simone A, Santos Clarice R, Nogueira Rita Maria R
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BACKGROUND: In Brazil dengue has been a major public health problem since DENV-1 introduction and spread in 1986. After a low or silent co-circulation, DENV-1 re-emerged in 2009 causing a major epidemic in the country in 2010 and 2011. In this study, the phylogeny of DENV-1 strains isolated in RJ...
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