Volume 14, Number 2—February 2008
Dispatch
Dengue Virus 3 Genotype 1 Associated with Dengue Fever and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever, Brazil
Leandra Barcelos Figueiredo*, Alzira Batista Cecílio†, Gustavo Portela Ferreira*, Betânia Paiva Drumond*, Jaquelline Germano de Oliveira*, Cláudio Antônio Bonjardim*, Paulo César Peregrino Ferreira*, and Maurício Teixeira Lima*
Table
Description of the dengue virus serotype 3 isolates*
| Identification | Disease | Patient sex | Patient age, y | City | Year | Passage history† | GenBank accession nos. |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| E sequence | C-prM sequence | |||||||
| BH–16 | DF(HM) | M | 42 | Belo Horizonte | 2003 | 5 | EF625832 | EF428575 |
| BH–17 | DF(HM) | M | 6 | Belo Horizonte | 2003 | 4 | EF428567 | |
| BH–19 | DF | M | 29 | Belo Horizonte | 2003 | 5 | EF625833 | EF428574 |
| MG–20‡ | DHF | F | 18 | Contagem | 2004 | 4 | EF625835 | EF428572 |
| MG–21 | DF | F | 37 | Sabará | 2003 | 5 | EF428568 | |
| BH–22 | DHF | F | 11 | Belo Horizonte | 2004 | 5 | EF428571 | |
| BH–24 | DF | F | 37 | Belo Horizonte | 2003 | 6 | EF625834 | EF428570 |
| BH–25 | DF | M | 25 | Belo Horizonte | 2003 | 3 | EF428569 | |
| MG–27 | DF | – | – | Caetanopólis | 2002 | 6 | EF428573 | |
*DF, dengue fever; DF(HM), dengue fever with hemorrhagic manifestations; DHF, dengue hemorrhagic fever, according to World Health Organization definition; –, data not available.
†Number of passages in cell culture (C6/36 cell line) is shown.
‡Fatal case.
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