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SUBMITTER: Mendonca MCL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6014721 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mendonça Marcos César Lima de MCL Mares-Guia Maria Angelica MA Rodrigues Cintia Damasceno Dos Santos CDDS Santos Carolina Cardoso Dos CCD Chalhoub Flavia Lowen Levy FLL Araújo Eliane Saraiva Machado ESM Chieppe Alexandre Otávio AO Nogueira Rita Maria Ribeiro RMR Filippis Ana Maria Bispo de AMB
Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 20180625 8
The dengue virus (DENV), of the genus Flavivirus (Flaviviridae), has four antigenically distinct serotypes, of which DENV-3 is classified into five genotypes. Here, we describe the detection of DENV-3 genotype I in sera of a Brazilian patient travelling from Singapore to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by using multiplex real-time RT-PCR, DNA sequencing of the whole envelope protein gene, and phylogenetic analysis. The virus shares ancestry with those identified in Bali, Indonesia, in 2015. It is possib ...[more]