Article
Detection of DENV-4 genotype I from mosquitoes collected in the city of Manaus, Brazil.
Virology journal - 19 Feb 2013
Figueiredo Mario Luis Garcia de, Alfonso Helda L, Amarilla Alberto Anastacio, Figueiredo Luiz Tadeu Moraes, Aquino Victor Hugo, Costa Cristóvão Alves da, Luz Sergio Luiz Bessa
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Dengue epidemics have been reported in Brazil since 1981. In Manaus, a large city in the Amazon region, dengue is endemic with all four-virus serotypes (DENV-1, -2, -3, and -4) simultaneously causing human disease. In 2008, during a surveillance of dengue virus in mosquitoes in the district of Tancredo Neves in Manaus, 260 mosquitoes of Aedes genus were captured, identified and grouped into pools of...
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