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Emergence of a Dengue virus serotype 2 causing the largest ever dengue epidemic in Sri Lanka
2018-05-23
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<h4>Background</h4> Sri Lanka experienced the largest ever dengue outbreak in year 2017, which coincided with the shift of the predominant circulating dengue virus (DENV) 1 to DENV2 after 9 years. As it was felt that more patients appeared to develop complications and severe dengue, we compared clinical features of patients with acute dengue, with the previous circulating serotype (DENV1) and also sequenced the n...
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- f7b8ef58-e329-5cc4-a8c0-574951f1aefa
- DOI
- 10.1101/329318