A prospective nested case-control study of Dengue in infants: rethinking and refining the antibody-dependent enhancement dengue hemorrhagic fever model.

Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) is the severe and life-threatening syndrome that can develop after infection with any one of the four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes. DHF occurs almost exclusively in individuals with secondary heterologous DENV infections and infants with primary DENV infections born t...

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Main Authors: Daniel H Libraty, Luz P Acosta, Veronica Tallo, Edelwisa Segubre-Mercado, Analisa Bautista, James A Potts, Richard G Jarman, In-Kyu Yoon, Robert V Gibbons, Job D Brion, Rosario Z Capeding
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-10-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2762316?pdf=render