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Emergence of the Asian genotype of DENV-1 in South India.
Virology - 1 Oct 2017
Cecilia D, Patil J A, Kakade M B, Walimbe A, Alagarasu K, Anukumar B, Abraham A
Abstract excerpt
A large outbreak of dengue occurred in Tamil Nadu, South India in 2012 with 12,000 cases and CFR of 0.5%. Molecular characterization of virus present in the sera of dengue patients was undertaken to determine if there were changes in the virus population. All four serotypes were circulating but DENV-1 was dominant, present in 52% of the serotyped samples. Furthermore, the genotype of only DENV-1 had changed; the...
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