Dengue 4 in Ceará, Brazil: characterisation of epidemiological and laboratorial aspects and causes of death during the first epidemic in the state

BACKGROUND The first dengue cases in Brazil with laboratory confirmation occurred in the northern region of the country, with the isolation of two serotypes, dengue virus 1 (DENV-1) and DENV-4. In Ceará, the introduction of DENV-4 was reported during a DENV-1 epidemic in 2011, with only two isolatio...

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Main Authors: Izabel Letícia Cavalcante Ramalho, Fernanda Montenegro de Carvalho Araújo, Luciano Pamplona de Góes Cavalcanti, Deborah Nunes Melo Braga, Anne Carolinne Bezerra Perdigão, Flavia Barreto dos Santos, Fernanda de Bruycker Nogueira, Kiliana Nogueira Farias da Escóssia, Maria Izabel Florindo Guedes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2018-10-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762018001100300&lng=en&tlng=en