Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2018)

Detection of Dengue Virus among Children with Suspected Malaria, Accra, Ghana

  • Nicholas Amoako,
  • Samuel Duodu,
  • Francis E. Dennis,
  • Joseph H.K. Bonney,
  • Kwaku P. Asante,
  • Juliana Ameh,
  • Lydia Mosi,
  • Takaya Hayashi,
  • Eudosia E. Agbosu,
  • Deborah Pratt,
  • Darwin J. Operario,
  • Barry Fields,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Eric R. Houpt,
  • George E. Armah,
  • Justin Stoler,
  • Gordon A. Awandare

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2408.180341
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 8
pp. 1544 – 1547

Abstract

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We report new molecular evidence of locally acquired dengue virus infections in Ghana. We detected dengue viral RNA among children with suspected malaria by using a multipathogen real-time PCR. Subsequent sequence analysis revealed a close relationship with dengue virus serotype 2, which was implicated in a 2016 outbreak in Burkina Faso.

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