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Dengue haemorrhagic fever: questions of pathogenesis

Cardosa, Mary Jane

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Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Sarawak, Malaysia

Correspondence to Mary Jane Cardosa, Institute of Health and Community Medicine, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia. Tel: +60 82 671 730; fax: +60 82 671 903; e-mail: [email protected]

Abbreviations

ADE: antibody-dependent enhancement

CNS: central nervous system

CSF: cerebrospinal fluid

DHF: dengue haemorrhagic fever

DSS: dengue shock syndrome

JEV: Japanese encephalitis virus

RT-PCR: reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction

WHO: World Health Organization

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases 13(5):p 471-475, October 2000.

Abstract

The year under review has seen a remarkable proliferation of papers on dengue. Four prospective studies have been carried out across the dengue belt, many groups have been pushing at the question of pathogenesis of dengue haemorrhagic fever, and a breakthrough has been achieved in the development of a mouse model for human dengue haemorrhagic fever.

© 2000 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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