The origin of dengue viruses caused the DF outbreak in Guangdong province, China, in 2006
โ Scribed by Shuiping Chen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 338 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1567-1348
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โฆ Synopsis
Phylogenetic analysis suggested that the DENV1 strains isolated in the DF outbreak in Guangdong province in 2006 were likely to be imported from Southeast Asian. Specifically, viruses isolated from Shantou and Chaozhou were imported from Singapore; viruses isolated from Guangzhou, Yangjiang, and Foshan were imported from Thailand/Vietnam. Therefore, importation of DENV1 from Southeast Asia was an important contributory factor of the 2006 DF outbreak in Guangdong province.
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Shexian County of Anhui Province in East China experienced a severe outbreak of nonbacterial diarrhoea in May and June of 1983. Over 20,0000 cases were reported. Most were adults of 20 to 50 years old. The isolated virus was morphologically indistinguishable from ordinary infantile rotavirus, but CF