Dengue-1 Virus Isolation during First Dengue Fever Outbreak on Easter Island, Chile
Open Access
- 1 November 2003
- journal article
- Published by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 9 (11) , 1465-1467
- https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0911.020788
Abstract
Dengue virus was detected for the first time in Chile, in an outbreak of dengue fever on Easter Island. The virus was isolated in tissue culture and characterized by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction as being dengue type 1.Keywords
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