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