Emerging Infectious Diseases (Nov 2003)

Dengue-1 Virus Isolation during First Dengue Fever Outbreak on Easter Island, Chile

  • Cecilia Perret,
  • Katia Abarca,
  • Jimena Ovalle,
  • Pablo Ferrer,
  • Paula Godoy,
  • Andrea Olea,
  • Ximena Aguilera,
  • Marcela Ferrés

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid0911.020788
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 11
pp. 1465 – 1467

Abstract

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Dengue virus was detected for the first time in Chile, in an outbreak of dengue fever on Easter Island. The virus was isolated in tissue culture and characterized by reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction as being dengue type 1.

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