Virulent Dengue Fever
Virulent Dengue Viruses
This is an in depth comparison between the 4 strains of Dengue Fever. The research documented here was designed to try to determine which strains are the most common, virulent and contagious, and their affects on humans. Dengue fever is the most common mosquito transmitted disease in humans and also potentially life threatening. With their being no current laboratory or animal models of this disease available for study, the pathology and growth of this disease has been hard to examine and therefore, hard to prevent. This summary focuses on results using human dendrite cells and Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and this viruses’ ability to replicate and infect others. Results from these studies implicate that the Southeast Asian genotypes’ characteristics are continuing to displace its’ sister strain, the American genotype.
Dengue fever is a blood-borne disease contracted and spread by being bitten by a mosquito infected with the Dengue virus.......
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