Novel Dengue Virus Type 1 from Travelers to Yap State, Micronesia

Abstract

Dengue virus type 1 (DENV-1), which was responsible for the dengue fever outbreak in Yap State, Micronesia, in 2004, was isolated from serum samples of 4 dengue patients in Japan. Genome sequencing demonstrated that this virus belonged to genotype IV and had a 29-nucleotide deletion in the 3´ noncoding region.

Keywords

• Dengue
• sequence deletion
• untranslated region
• dispatch
• Micronesia