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Imported case of Dengue virus 3 genotype I in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - 25 Jun 2018
Mendonça Marcos César Lima de, Mares-Guia Maria Angelica, Rodrigues Cintia Damasceno Dos Santos, Santos Carolina Cardoso Dos, Chalhoub Flavia Lowen Levy, Araújo Eliane Saraiva Machado, Chieppe Alexandre Otávio, Nogueira Rita Maria Ribeiro, Filippis Ana Maria Bispo de
Abstract excerpt
The dengue virus (DENV), of the genus Flavivirus (Flaviviridae), has four antigenically distinct serotypes, of which DENV-3 is classified into five genotypes. Here, we describe the detection of DENV-3 genotype I in sera of a Brazilian patient travelling from Singapore to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by using multiplex real-time RT-PCR, DNA sequencing of the whole envelope protein gene, and phylogenetic analysis. The...
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