Dengue Virus Type 3, Brazil, 2002

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Nogueira, Rita Maria Ribeiro ; Schatzmayr, Hermann Gonçalves ; Bispo de Filippis, Ana Maria ; Barreto dos Santos, Flávia ; Venâncio da Cunha, Rivaldo ; Coelho, Janice Oliveira ; José de Souza, Luiz ; Guimarães, Flávia Ramos ; Machado de Araújo, Eliane Saraiva ; De Simone, Thatiane Santos ; Baran, Meri ; Teixeira, Gualberto ; Miagostovich, Marize Pereira
• Description:
  During the summer of 2002, Rio de Janeiro had a large epidemic of dengue fever; 288,245 cases were reported. A subset of 1,831 dengue hemorrhagic fever cases occurred. In this study, performed in the first half of 2002, samples from 1,559 patients with suspected cases of dengue infection were analyzed. From this total, 1,497 were obtained from patients with nonfatal cases, and 62 were obtained from patients with fatal cases. By the use of different methods, 831 (53.3%) cases, including 40 fatal cases, were confirmed as dengue infection. When virus identification was successful, dengue virus type 3 (DENV-3) was obtained in 99% of cases. Neurologic involvement was shown in 1 patient with encephalitis, confirmed by the detection of DENV-3 RNA in the cerebrospinal fluid. This explosive epidemic of DENV-3 was the most severe dengue epidemic reported in Brazil since dengue viruses were introduced in 1986.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Child Dengue Dengue Virus Disease Outbreaks Female Humans Male Middle Aged Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction RNA, Viral Seasons Serology

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 11(9):1376-1381.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Brazil
• Volume:
  11
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:f47a5149fdf02752db5a0bcaa839721cb1d6c22db8bf89154ffd18f39fdd234b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/15741/cdc_15741_DS1.pdf
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