Dengue-1 virus isolation during first dengue fever outbreak on Easter Island, Chile
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Multiplexed Isothermal Amplification Based Diagnostic Platform to Detect Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue 1
Published on: March 13, 2018
Cecilia Perret1, Katia Abarca, Jimena Ovalle
1Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile School of Medicine, Virology Laboratory, Santiago, Chile. cperret@med.puc.cl
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|January 14, 2004
Abstract:
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.
