Molecular and in vitro analysis of eight dengue type 2 viruses isolated from patients exhibiting different disease severities.

doi:10.1006/viro.1998.9093

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Molecular and in vitro analysis of eight dengue type 2 viruses isolated from patients exhibiting different disease severities.

Virology - 10 May 1998

Mangada M N, Igarashi A

Abstract excerpt

Potential genetic determinants of dengue virulence were studied by sequencing the entire genomes of eight dengue 2 virus strains isolated from patients exhibiting different disease severities during an epidemic season in northeastern Thailand in 1993. The isolates came from one dengue shock syndr...

Topics

Adolescent
Animals
Base Sequence
Cell Line
Child
Cricetinae
DNA, Viral
Dengue
Dengue Virus
Female
Humans
In Vitro Techniques
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Phenotype
Phylogeny
Viral Plaque Assay

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