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Air Travel Is Associated with Intracontinental Spread of Dengue Virus Serotypes 1–3 in Brazil
17 Apr 2014
Abstract excerpt
Dengue virus and its four serotypes (DENV-1 to DENV-4) infect 390 million people and are implicated in at least 25,000 deaths annually, with the largest disease burden in tropical and subtropical regions. We investigated the spatial dynamics of DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3 in Brazil by applying a statistical framework to complete genome sequences. For all three serotypes, we estimated that the introduction of new...
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