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Disruption of predicted dengue virus type 3 major outbreak cycle coincided with switching of the dominant circulating virus genotype.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2017
Tan Kim-Kee, Zulkifle Nurul-Izzani, Abd-Jamil Juraina, Sulaiman Syuhaida, Yaacob Che Norainon, Azizan Noor Syahida, Che Mat Seri Nurul Asma Anati, Samsudin Nur Izyan, Mahfodz Nur Hidayana, AbuBakar Sazaly
Abstract excerpt
Dengue is hyperendemic in most of Southeast Asia. In this region, all four dengue virus serotypes are persistently present. Major dengue outbreak cycle occurs in a cyclical pattern involving the different dengue virus serotypes. In Malaysia, since the 1980s, the major outbreak cycles have involved dengue virus type 3 (DENV3), dengue virus type 1 (DENV1) and dengue virus type 2 (DENV2), occurring in that order...
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