Molecular epidemiology suggests Venezuela as the origin of the dengue outbreak in Madeira, Portugal in 2012-2013

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 713.e5-713.e8

  Franco, L ^a   Pagan, I ^b   Serre Del Cor, N ^c   Schunk, M ^d   Neumayr, A ^e   Molero, F ^a   Potente, A ^a   Hatz, C ^e   Wilder Smith, A ^f   Sanchez Seco M P ^a   Tenorio, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b ETSI MontesTechnical University of Madrid   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^f UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dengue fever; Dengue virus 1; Madeira; South America; Travel infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN; COLOMBIA; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS 1; EUROPE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MONOPHYLY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICAN; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TRAVEL; VENEZUELA; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENGUE VIRUS; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; VIROLOGY;

DENGUE VIRUS; DENGUE VIRUS TYPE 1;

VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PORTUGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; VENEZUELA;

EID: 84930821639     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmi.2015.03.016     Document Type: Article

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