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9601513

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-6-8
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Potential genetic determinants of dengue virulence were studied by sequencing the entire genomes of eight dengue 2 virus strains isolated from patients exhibiting different disease severities during an epidemic season in northeastern Thailand in 1993. The isolates came from one dengue shock syndrome (ThNH-7/93), three dengue hemorrhagic fever, and four dengue fever patients. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the isolates belonged to the Southeast Asian genotype. The 3' noncoding regions showed distinctive secondary structures, with one specific structure for the isolate ThNH-7/93. Analysis of the predicted polyprotein showed several amino acid (aa) changes scattered mostly in the nonstructural region. Of 30 positions with aa changes, 7 were unique to the isolate ThNH-7/93 and 3 of those led to radical alterations in aa character. Several aa changes coincided with previous studies relating genome sequence and virulence. Minimal changes in computer-predicted protein secondary structures were observed. Infective particles in the inoculum for all isolates were approximately equal as measured by focus formation on BHK-21 cells, but this did not correlate with the number of plaques formed on LLC-MK2 cells. Isolates from patients that experienced secondary infection were shown to have significantly larger plaques than the isolates from primary infection patients.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0042-6822
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
10
pubmed:volume
244
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
458-66
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Molecular and in vitro analysis of eight dengue type 2 viruses isolated from patients exhibiting different disease severities.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Virology, Nagasaki University, Japan. maloy@ep.tm.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, In Vitro, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't