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. 2010 Apr;16(4):716-8.
doi: 10.3201/eid1604.091582.

Reemergence of dengue in Mauritius

Mohammad I Issack  1 , Vidula N Pursem, Timothy M S Barkham, Lee Ching Ng, Masafumi Inoue, Shyam S Manraj
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Reemergence of dengue in Mauritius

Mohammad I Issack et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Apr.

Abstract

Dengue reemerged in Mauritius in 2009 after an absence of >30 years, and >200 cases were confirmed serologically. Molecular studies showed that the outbreak was caused by dengue virus type 2. Phylogenetic analysis of the envelope gene identified 2 clades of the virus. No case of hemorrhagic fever was recorded.

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Phylogenetic relationships of dengue virus isolates from Mauritius inferred by envelope (E) gene sequence by using the maximum likelihood method as implemented in PAUP* version 4.0b10 (http://paup.csit.fsu.edu/about.html). Primers used for amplification of product for sequencing were 5′-AATCCAGATGTCATCAGGAAAC-3′ and 5′-CCTATAGATGTGAACACTCCTCC-3′. The E gene sequences were consolidated from overlapping, bidirectional sequences. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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