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Case Reports
. 2010 Nov;16(11):1770-2.
doi: 10.3201/eid1611.101061.

Importation of dengue virus type 3 to Japan from Tanzania and Cote d'Ivoire

Meng Ling Moi  1 , Tomohiko Takasaki, Akira Kotaki, Shigeru Tajima, Chang-Kweng Lim, Mitsuo Sakamoto, Hajime Iwagoe, Kenichiro Kobayashi, Ichiro Kurane
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Importation of dengue virus type 3 to Japan from Tanzania and Cote d'Ivoire

Meng Ling Moi et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Nov.

Abstract

Travelers can introduce viruses from disease-endemic to non-disease-endemic areas. Serologic and virologic tests confirmed dengue virus infections in 3 travelers returning to Japan: 2 from Tanzania and 1 from Cote d'Ivoire. Phylogenetic analysis of the envelope gene showed that 2 genetically related virus isolates belonged to dengue virus type 3 genotype III.

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Phylogenetic tree based on the envelope genome sequence of selected dengue virus type 3 (DENV-3) strains. The tree was rooted to DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-4. Multiple sequence alignments were performed, and the tree was constructed by using the neighbor-joining method. The percentage of successful bootstrap replication is indicated at the nodes. DENV-3 genotypes are indicated on the right. The isolated DENV-3 strains, D3/Hu/Tanzania/NIID08/2010 strain (Tanzania2010) and D3/Hu/Côte d'Ivoire/NIID48/2008 strain (Côte d’Ivoire2008), are indicated with arrowheads. Scale bar indicates nucleotide substitutions per site.
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