New dengue virus type 1 genotype in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Hasitha A
Tissera
;
Eng Eong
Ooi
;
Duane J
Gubler
;
Ying
Tan
;
Barathy
Logendra
;
Wahala MPB
Wahala
;
Aravinda M
de Silva
;
MR Nihal
Abeysinghe
;
Paba
Palihawadana
;
Sunethra
Gunasena
;
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Clarence C
Tam
;
Ananda
Amarasinghe
;
G William
Letson
;
Harold S
Margolis
;
Aruna Dharshan
De Silva
;
(2011)
New dengue virus type 1 genotype in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Emerging infectious diseases, 17 (11).
pp. 2053-2055.
ISSN 1080-6040
DOI: 10.3201/eid1711.101893
The number of cases and severity of disease associated with dengue infection in Sri Lanka has been increasing since 1989, when the first epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever was recorded. We identified a new dengue virus 1 strain circulating in Sri Lanka that coincided with the 2009 dengue epidemic.
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