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Highly divergent dengue virus type 1 genotype sets a new distance record.
Scientific reports - 29 Feb 2016
Pyke Alyssa T, Moore Peter R, Taylor Carmel T, Hall-Mendelin Sonja, Cameron Jane N, Hewitson Glen R, Pukallus Dennis S, Huang Bixing, Warrilow David, van den Hurk Andrew F
Abstract excerpt
Dengue viruses (DENVs) are the leading cause of mosquito-borne viral disease of humans. They exist in both endemic and sylvatic ecotypes. In 2014, a viremic patient who had recently visited the rainforests of Brunei returned to Australia displaying symptoms consistent with DENV infection. A unique DENV strain was subsequently isolated from the patient, which we propose belongs to a new genotype within DENV...
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