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Dengue Fever
New findings from University of Texas describe advances in dengue fever
August 20th, 2008
According to a study from the United States, "Sylvatic dengue viruses (DENVs) are transmitted between non-human primates and arboreal Aedes spp. mosquitoes in Southeast Asia and west Africa. Recent evidence suggests that the risk for re-emergence of sylvatic DENV into the urban endemic/epidemic cycle may be high, which could limit the potential for eradicating the human transmission cycle with vaccines now under development." "We assessed the likelihood of sylvatic DENY re-emergence in the face of immunity to current endemic strains or vaccines by evaluating the neutralization capacity of sera from DENY vaccinees and convalescent patients after primary infection with...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-08-20)
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