Highly Divergent Dengue Virus Type 2 in Traveler Returning from Borneo to Australia.

ABSTRACT: Dengue virus type 2 was isolated from a tourist who returned from Borneo to Australia. Phylogenetic analysis identified this virus as highly divergent and occupying a basal phylogenetic position relative to all known human and sylvatic dengue virus type 2 strains and the most divergent lineage not assigned to a new serotype.

SUBMITTER: Liu W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5189156 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature