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| | #REDIRECT [[Dengue virus]] |
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| ==Overview==
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| Dengue fever is caused by one of four different but related [[Dengue fever viruses]]. [[Aedes aegypti]] is the principal [[mosquito]] vector of [[dengue fever viruses]].<ref name=WHO2009>{{cite web | title = Dengue: guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control | url = http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2009/9789241547871_eng.pdf?ua=1 }}</ref>
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| ==Dengue Fever Virus==
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| * [[Dengue fever virus]] ([[DENV]]) is an [[RNA]] virus of the family [[Flaviviridae]]; genus [[Flavivirus]].
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| * Other members of the same genus include [[yellow fever]] virus, [[West Nile virus]], [[St. Louis encephalitis]] virus, [[japanese encephalitis]] virus, [[tick-borne encephalitis]], [[Kyasanur Forest disease]] virus, and [[Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus]].
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| * Most are transmitted by arthropods ([[mosquitoes]] or [[ticks]]), and are therefore also referred to as [[arboviruses]] (arthropod-borne viruses).
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| * The dengue virus [[genome]] contains about 11,000 nucleotide bases, which code for the three different types of protein molecules (C, prM and E) that form the [[virus]] particle and seven other types of protein molecules (NS1, NS2a, NS2b, NS3, NS4a, NS4b, NS5) that are only found in infected host cells and are required for replication of the virus.
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| * There are five strains of the virus, of which the first four are referred to as [[DENV-1]], [[DENV-2]], [[DENV-3]] and [[DENV-4]].
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| * The distinctions between the [[serotypes]] is based on the their [[antigenicity]].
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| ==Gallery==
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| Image: Dengue 07.jpeg| Aedes mediovittatus mosquito is a vector in the transmission of Dengue Fever. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Dengue 06.jpeg|Illustration identifying the pecten on the terminal abdominal segment of an Aedes mosquito larva, vector of Dengue transmission. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Dengue 05.jpeg|Red blood meal visible through her now transparent abdomen of female Aedes aegypti mosquito after leaving host’s skin surface. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| Image: Dengue 04.jpeg|Aedes aegypti female was from a strain of mosquitoes named LVP-IB12. <SMALL><SMALL>''[http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp From Public Health Image Library (PHIL).] ''<ref name=PHIL> {{Cite web | title = Public Health Image Library (PHIL) | url = http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp}}</ref></SMALL></SMALL>
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| ==References==
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| [[Category:Hemorrhagic fevers]]
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| [[Category:Neglected diseases]] | | [[Category:Cardiology]] |
| [[Category:Tropical disease]] | | [[Category:Gastroenterology]] |
| [[Category:Viral diseases]]
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