Air travel is associated with intracontinental spread of dengue virus serotypes 1-3 in Brazil.

• Main Authors: Marcio R T Nunes (Author), Gustavo Palacios (Author), Nuno Rodrigues Faria (Author), Edivaldo Costa Sousa (Author), Jamilla A Pantoja (Author), Sueli G Rodrigues (Author), Valéria L Carvalho (Author), Daniele B A Medeiros (Author), Nazir Savji (Author), Guy Baele (Author), Marc A Suchard (Author), Philippe Lemey (Author), Pedro F C Vasconcelos (Author), W Ian Lipkin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Dengue virus and its four serotypes (DENV-1 to DENV-4) infect 390 million people and are implicated in at least 25,000 deaths annually, with the largest disease burden in tropical and subtropical regions. We investigated the spatial dynamics of DENV-1, DENV-2 and DENV-3 in Brazil by applying a stati...