Dengue virus type 4 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro: the role of molecular techniques in laboratory diagnosis and entomological surveillance

Dengue virus type 4 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro: the role of molecular techniques in laboratory diagnosis and entomological surveillance

In Niterói, state of Rio de Janeiro, dengue virus type 4 (DENV-4) was isolated for the first time in March 2011. We analysed the laboratory findings of the first cases and evaluated the use of molecular techniques for the detection of DENV-4 in Aedes aegypti that were field-caught. Conventional reve...

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Main Authors: Márcia Gonçalves de Castro, Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis, Anielly Alves Ferreira, Monique da Rocha Queiroz Lima, Nieli Rodrigues da Costa Faria, Fernanda de Bruycker Nogueira, Jaqueline Bastos Santos Simões, Priscila Conrado Guerra Nunes, Simone Alves Sampaio, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Flávia Barreto dos Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde 2012-11-01
Series:Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
Subjects:
dengue virus type 4
Aedes aegypti
RT-PCR
real-time RT-PCR
SimplexaTM Dengue real-time RT-PCR
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