Dengue-1 virus isolation during first dengue fever outbreak on Easter Island, Chile.
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.
Perret
Cecilia
C
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile School of Medicine, Virology Laboratory, Santiago, Chile. cperret@med.puc.cl
Abarca
Katia
K
Ovalle
Jimena
J
Ferrer
Pablo
P
Godoy
Paula
P
Olea
Andrea
A
Aguilera
Ximena
X
Ferrés
Marcela
M
D000328:Adult; D002677:Chile / Q000453:epidemiology; D003715:Dengue / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003716:Dengue Virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011114:Polynesia / Q000453:epidemiology; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D014195:Travel