Twenty years of DENV-2 activity in Brazil: molecular characterization and phylogeny of strains isolated from 1990 to 2010.

• Main Authors: Nieli Rodrigues da Costa Faria (Author), Rita Maria Ribeiro Nogueira (Author), Ana Maria Bispo de Filippis (Author), Jaqueline Bastos Santos Simões (Author), Fernanda de Bruycker Nogueira (Author), Monique da Rocha Queiroz Lima (Author), Flavia Barreto dos Santos (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In Brazil, dengue has been a major public health problem since its introduction in the 1980s. Phylogenetic studies constitute a valuable tool to monitor the introduction and spread of viruses as well as to predict the potential epidemiological consequences of such events. Aiming to perform the molec...