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| {{Dengue fever}}
| | #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]].
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| ==Dengue Fever Virus====The Pathogen is Dengue virus==
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| [[Dengue fever virus]] ([[DENV]]) is an [[RNA]] virus of the family [[Flaviviridae]]; genus [[Flavivirus]]. 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]]. Most are transmitted by arthropods ([[mosquitoes]] or [[ticks]]), and are therefore also referred to as [[arboviruses]] (arthropod-borne viruses). | | [[Category:Cardiology]] |
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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. 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]]. The distinctions between the [[serotypes]] is based on the their [[antigenicity]].
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