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New dengue virus type 1 genotype in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Tissera HA, Ooi EE, Gubler DJ, Tan Y, Logendra B, Wahala WM, de Silva AM, Abeysinghe MR, Palihawadana P, Gunasena S, Tam CC, Amarasinghe A, Letson GW, Margolis HS, De Silva AD.
Citation
Tissera HA, Ooi EE, Gubler DJ, Tan Y, Logendra B, Wahala WM, de Silva AM, Abeysinghe MR, Palihawadana P, Gunasena S, Tam CC, Amarasinghe A, Letson GW, Margolis HS, De Silva AD. (2011) New dengue virus type 1 genotype in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Emerging Infectious Diseases 17(11):2053-2055.
Abstract
The number of cases and severity of disease associated with dengue infection in Sri Lanka has been increasing since 1989, when the first epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever was recorded. We identified a new dengue virus 1 strain circulating in Sri Lanka that coincided with the 2009 dengue epidemic.
| Link: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22099096 |
| PMID: | 22099096 |
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