Dengue is a mosquito-transmitted acute disease caused by any of four virus serotypes (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4) and characterized by the sudden onset of fever, headache, myalgia, rash, nausea, and vomiting. The disease is endemic in most tropical areas of the world and has occurred in U.S. residents returning from travel to such areas. This report summarizes information about cases of imp...

AIM To investigate which recent infection could have caused the present dengue-like symptoms, in adult patients clinically fulfilling the WHO criteria for dengue, in which serologically were not confirmed for dengue virus infections. METHODS Prospective study. During an outbreak of dengue (between May 1995 and May 1996) 118 consecutive adults (>13 years) suspected by the WHO 1997 case definit...

This paper has been retracted as it is found to contain a substantial amount of material from a number of previously published papers. The three most plagiarized papers are (1) K. I. Hidari and T. Suzuki, “Dengue virus receptor,” Tropical Medicine and Health, vol. 39, no. 4, supplement, pp. 37–43, 2011; (2) A. Cabrera-Hernandez and D. R. Smith, “Mammalian dengue virus receptors,” Dengue Bulleti...

During a dengue epidemic in northern Mexico, enhanced surveillance identified 53 laboratory-positive cases in southern Texas; 26 (49%) patients acquired the infection locally, and 29 (55%) were hospitalized. Of 83 patient specimens that were initially IgM negative according to ELISA performed at a commercial laboratory, 14 (17%) were dengue virus positive by real-time reverse transcription PCR ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Dengue has re-emerged as an important arboviral disease causing significant morbidity. It has become hyperendemic in the Indian subcontinent with all four known dengue serotypes circulating. MATERIALS AND METHODS Multiple sequence alignments and phylogenetic trees of DENV-3 were constructed to determine the extent of the isolated dengue virus genetic heterogeneity an...

The theory of antibody-dependent enhancement plays an important role in the dengue virus infection. However, its molecular mechanism is not clearly studied partially due to lack of a sensitive assay to determine the dengue virus-infected cells. We developed a flow cytometric assay with anti-dengue antibody intracellular staining on dengue virus-infected cells. Both anti-E and anti-prM Abs could...

Dengue virus is an arbovirus belonging to family flaviviridae causes dengue fever (DF) and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Dengue virus circulates in most tropical and subtropical regions or the world with 50–100 million human cases annually. Dengue viruses have four known serotypes designated as DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3, and DENV-4, with each serotype can cause full spectrum of sign and symptoms...

Dengue virus receptors are relatively poorly characterized, but there has been recent interest in 2 C-type lectin molecules, dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule 3 (ICAM-3)-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) and its close homologue liver/lymph node-specific ICAM-3-grabbing integrin (L-SIGN), which can both bind dengue and promote infection. In this report we have studied the inte...

Dengue virus isolation and serotyping was carried out in 105 clinically-suspected cases of dengue fever by the mosquito inoculation and cell culture techniques to find a suitable virus isolation technique for a resource-constrained country like Bangladesh and to identify the serotypes responsible for the dengue outbreak in 2000. Virus was identified by direct fluorescent antibody technique (DFA...