Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Research
Dengue Virus Type 3, Brazil, 2002
Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira*
, Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr*, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis*, Flávia Barreto dos Santos*, Rivaldo Venâncio da Cunha†, Janice Oliveira Coelho‡, Luiz José de Souza§, Flávia Ramos Guimarães*, Eliane Saraiva Machado de Araújo*, Thatiane Santos De Simone*, Meri Baran¶, Gualberto Teixeira#, and Marize Pereira Miagostovich*
, Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr*, Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis*, Flávia Barreto dos Santos*, Rivaldo Venâncio da Cunha†, Janice Oliveira Coelho‡, Luiz José de Souza§, Flávia Ramos Guimarães*, Eliane Saraiva Machado de Araújo*, Thatiane Santos De Simone*, Meri Baran¶, Gualberto Teixeira#, and Marize Pereira Miagostovich*Table 3
Dengue virus detection according to tissues samples analyzed from patients with laboratory-confirmed fatal cases*
| Tissues sample | RT-PCR positive/studied | Virus isolation positive/studied | Immunohistochemistry positive/studied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liver | 7/7 | 2/6 | 15/23 |
| Lung | 4/4 | 0/4 | 2/10 |
| Brain | 3/3 | 0/3 | 2/7 |
| Kidney | 2/2 | 0/2 | 0 |
| Spleen | 1/1 | 0/1 | 4/11 |
*RT-PCR, reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction.
