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Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz
ISSN: 1678-8060
EISSN: 1678-8060
Vol. 107, No. 7, 2012, pp. 940-945
Bioline Code: oc12198
Full paper language: English
Document type: Research Article
Document available free of charge

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Vol. 107, No. 7, 2012, pp. 940-945

 en Dengue virus type 4 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro: the role of molecular techniques in laboratory diagnosis and entomological surveillance
de Castro, Márcia Gonçalves; Nogueira, Rita Maria Ribeiro; de Filippis, Ana Maria Bispo; Ferreira, Anielly Alves; Queiroz Lima, Monique da Rocha; da Costa Faria, Nieli Rodrigues; de Bruycker Nogueira, Fernanda; Simões, Jaqueline Bastos Santos; Nunes, Priscila Conrado Guerra; Sampaio, Simone Alves; Lourenço-de-Oliveira, Ricardo & dos Santos, Flávia Barreto

Abstract

In Niterói, state of Rio de Janeiro, dengue virus type 4 (DENV-4) was isolated for the first time in March 2011. We analysed the laboratory findings of the first cases and evaluated the use of molecular techniques for the detection of DENV-4 in Aedes aegypti check for this species in other resources that were field-caught. Conventional reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and SimplexaTM Dengue real-time RT-PCR confirmed DENV-4 infection in all cases. Additionally, DENV- 4 was confirmed in a female Ae. aegypti with 1.08 x 103 copies/mL of virus, as determined by quantitative real-time RT-PCR. This is the first time the SimplexaTM Dengue real-time assay has been used for the classification of cases of infection and for entomological investigations. The use of these molecular techniques was shown to be important for the surveillance of dengue in humans and vectors.

Keywords
dengue virus type 4 - Aedes aegypti - RT-PCR - real-time RT-PCR - SimplexaTM Dengue real-time RT-PCR

 
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