Dengue Virus

Dengue Virus Invades the Brain by Damaging the Blood-Brain Barrier

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, February 8th, 2000

Injury to the cells comprising the blood-brain barrier may provide the opening the dengue virus needs to invade the central nervous system, according to researchers in Taiwan.

Chung N. Sun, Jiang J. Wang, and colleagues at Taiwan's National Defense Medical Center reported their study at the American Society for Cell Biology's 39th annual meeting held December 11-15, 1999, in Washington DC.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has indicated that dengue is among the most important mosquito-borne viruses affecting humans, with a global distribution comparable to that of malaria. Roughly 2.5 billion people live within areas where...

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