Dengue Serotype Differences in Urban and Semi-rural Communities in Ecuador
| Autor: | Julio Carrera, Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, Sully Márquez, Sara G. Cifuentes, Emilia Espín, Gabriel Trueba, Josefina Coloma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Serotype Veterinary medicine viruses 030231 tropical medicine virus diseases Outbreak General Medicine biochemical phenomena metabolism and nutrition Dengue virus Serum samples medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Dengue fever 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine Geography medicine |
| Zdroj: | ACI Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías. 10 |
| ISSN: | 2528-7788 1390-5384 |
| DOI: | 10.18272/aci.v10i1.959 |
| Popis: | Dengue is a major vector-borne infection causing large outbreaks in urban communities in tropical regions. During the period 2010- 2014; 434 serum samples from febrile patients were collected from a semi-rural community hospital located in the norwestern region of Ecuador. Dengue virus (DENV) was investigated by reverse transcriptase PCR; a total of 48 samples were positive for dengue. During our study we detected DENV-2 and DENV-3 from 2010 to 2013 and the four DENV serotypes during the period 2013-2014. Surprisingly, our results contrasted with surveys carried out in urban centers throughout the Ecuadorian Coast in which DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-4 were prevalent during years 2010-2013 and only 2 serotypes (DENV-1 and DENV-2) in 2014.These results suggest that dengue viruses in semi-rural communities didn’t originate in the Ecuadorian cities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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