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Outbreak of dengue virus type-3 in Malakand, Pakistan 2015; A laboratory perspective.
Acta tropica - 1 May 2017
Suleman Muhammad, Faryal Rani, Alam Muhammad Masroor, Khurshid Adnan, Sharif Salmaan, Shaukat Shahzad, Angez Mehar, Umair Massab, Sufian Mian Muhammad, Arshad Yasir, Inam Tanveer, Zaidi Syed Sohail Zahoor
Abstract excerpt
An outbreak of dengue fever was reported in Malakand district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan during 2015. Detection of viral RNA by real-time PCR confirmed dengue virus serotype-3 (DENV-3) to be the causative agent causing the outbreak. Phylogenetic analysis based on partial E-NS1 gene sequences showed that the DENV-3 viruses belonged to genotype III with maximum homology with the dengue-3 strains...
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