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Dengue Fever
Research from M.J. Schreiber and co-authors in the area of dengue fever published
June 17th, 2009
"Dengue is one of the most important emerging diseases of humans, with no preventative vaccines or antiviral cures available at present. Although one-third of the world's population live at risk of infection, little is known about the pattern and dynamics of dengue virus (DENV) within outbreak situations," scientists in Singapore, Singapore report. "By exploiting genomic data from an intensively studied major outbreak, we are able to describe the molecular epidemiology of DENV at a uniquely fine-scaled temporal and spatial resolution. Two DENV serotypes (DENV-1 and DENV-3), and multiple component genotypes, spread concurrently and with similar epidemiological and...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-06-17)
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