Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (Sep 2002)

Dengue virus type 3 isolation from Aedes aegypti in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro

  • Ricardo Lourenço-de-Oliveira,
  • Nildimar A Honório,
  • Márcia G Castro,
  • Hermann G Schatzmayr,
  • Marize P Miagostovich,
  • João CR Alves,
  • Wellington C Silva,
  • Paulo J Leite,
  • Rita MR Nogueira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s0074-02762002000600009
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 97, no. 6
pp. 799 – 800

Abstract

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In a prospective field study conducted from July 2000 to June 2001, adult Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes were caught from the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Virus isolation in Ae. albopictus clone C6/36 cell line and a semi-nested reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction detected only dengue virus type 3 in three pools of Ae. aegypti, despite the co-circulation of DEN-1, DEN-2 and DEN-3 serotypes in that area. No viruses were detected in Ae. albopictus mosquitoes. This virological surveillance consists in a sentinel system alerting for dengue outbreaks.

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