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Dengue Fever
Research from World Health Organization in the area of dengue fever described
October 8th, 2008
According to recent research from Havana, Cuba, "To evaluate the neutralizing antibody activity of a human sera panel against seven strains of the homotypic virus. Sera were collected from DENV-3 immune individuals." "Two DENV-3 genotypes and strains isolated at different time-points during the 2000 and 2001-2002 Havana epidemics were included. A panel of 20 late convalescent sera collected 16-18 months after acute illness from DF and DHF patients are studied. These individuals were infected during the 2001-2002 Havana DENV-3 epidemic. All but four sera collected from DF cases had a secondary DENV-1/DENV-3 infection. Sera neutralizing antibody titer against the seven...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-10-08)
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