Molecular epidemiology of type 1 and 2 dengue viruses in Brazil from 1988 to 2001
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection that in recent decades has become a major international public health concern. Epidemic dengue fever reemerged in Brazil in 1981. Since 1990 more than one dengue virus serotype has been circulating in this tropical country and increasing rates of dengue hem...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
2005-06-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2005000600005 |