Unusual dengue virus 3 epidemic in Nicaragua, 2009.

• Main Authors: Gamaliel Gutierrez (Author), Katherine Standish (Author), Federico Narvaez (Author), Maria Angeles Perez (Author), Saira Saborio (Author), Douglas Elizondo (Author), Oscar Ortega (Author), Andrea Nuñez (Author), Guillermina Kuan (Author), Angel Balmaseda (Author), Eva Harris (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The four dengue virus serotypes (DENV1-4) cause the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease affecting humans worldwide. In 2009, Nicaragua experienced the largest dengue epidemic in over a decade, marked by unusual clinical presentation, as observed in two prospective studies of pediatric dengue...