Comparative Evaluation of Dengue Virus (DENV) Serotypes Infections in Human (Homo sapiens)

Dengue virus (DENV), a flavivirus consisting of four serotypes (DENV-1 through to

Right 許諾条件により本文は2014-08-12に公開; This dissertation is author version of following the journal article. Fumihiro Kato, Yuki Ishida, Takahiro Kawagishi, Takeshi Kobayashi, Takayuki Hishiki, Tomoyuki Miura, and Tatsuhiko Igarashi. "Natural infection of cynomolgus monkeys with dengue virus occurs in epidemic cycles in the Philippines" J Gen Virol October 2013 94:2202-2207; published ahead of print Ju...

Dengue Fever Virus (DENV)

The name of the disease is said to be derived from the Portuguese word dengue which means fastidious or vain, which would describe the disturbed gait of an infected person suffering from muscle and bone pain (see also English: ‘dandy’). Dengue virus and dengue haemorrhagic fever virus are synonyms. The dengue fever virus (DENV) is a member of the genus of the 53 flaviviruses and ranks among the...

Homo Sapiens

Homo Socialis and Homo Sapiens

The assumption that individuals are behaving rationally can, at times, usefully constrain predictions of individual and collective behavior. However, success in predicting human and group behavior will often require relaxing this assumption of rationality, instead employing evolutionary, neural, and cognitive constraints. One particularly important form of neural and cognitive constraint is tha...

Concurrent infections by two dengue virus serotypes among dengue patients in Taiwan.

The co-circulation of multiple dengue virus serotypes in the same region has been reported in several countries in Southeast Asia as well as in Central and South America for decades. Although outbreaks involving more than one serotype of dengue virus have been reported in Taiwan since 1987, concurrent infection in the same individual by multiple serotypes of dengue virus have never been identif...