Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2015)

Autochthonous Dengue Fever, Tokyo, Japan, 2014

  • Satoshi Kutsuna,
  • Yasuyuki Kato,
  • Meng Ling Moi,
  • Akira Kotaki,
  • Masayuki Ota,
  • Koh Shinohara,
  • Tetsuro Kobayashi,
  • Kei Yamamoto,
  • Yoshihiro Fujiya,
  • Momoko Mawatari,
  • Tastuya Sato,
  • Junwa Kunimatsu,
  • Nozomi Takeshita,
  • Kayoko Hayakawa,
  • Shuzo Kanagawa,
  • Tomohiko Takasaki,
  • Norio Ohmagari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2103.141662
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 3
pp. 517 – 520

Abstract

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After 70 years with no confirmed autochthonous cases of dengue fever in Japan, 19 cases were reported during August–September 2014. Dengue virus serotype 1 was detected in 18 patients. Phylogenetic analysis of the envelope protein genome sequence from 3 patients revealed 100% identity with the strain from the first patient (2014) in Japan.

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