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1. Detection of Dengue Virus among Children with Suspected Malaria, Accra, Ghana

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Amoako, Nicholas, Duodu, Samuel, Dennis, Francis E., Bonney, Joseph H.K., Asante, Kwaku P., Ameh, Juliana, Mosi, Lydia, Hayashi, Takaya, Agbosu, Eudosia E., Pratt, Deborah, Operario, Darwin J., Fields, Barry, Liu, Jie, Houpt, Eric R., Armah, George E., Stoler, Justin, and Awandare, Gordon A.

Subjects
Infection -- Care and treatment -- Development and progression -- Health aspects, Malaria -- Care and treatment -- Development and progression -- Health aspects, Dengue virus -- Health aspects, Health
Abstract

The accurate diagnosis of nonmalarial febrile illnesses remains a large challenge in many malaria-endemic countries (1). The etiologic agents in this context are often not identified because of nonspecific clinical [...]

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2018
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2. Detection of Dengue Virus among Children with Suspected Malaria, Accra, Ghana.

Author

Duodu, Samuel, Dennis, Francis E., Bonney, Joseph H. K., Mosi, Lydia, Agbosu, Eudosia E., Pratt, Deborah, Armah, George E., Awandare, Gordon A., Amoako, Nicholas, Takaya Hayashi, Asante, Kwaku P., Ameh, Juliana, Operario, Darwin J., Jie Liu, Houpt, Eric R., Fields, Barry, Stoler, Justin, Hayashi, Takaya, and Liu, Jie

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DENGUE viruses, MALARIA diagnosis, PUBLIC health, SWEET'S syndrome, PATHOGENIC microorganisms
Abstract

We report new molecular evidence of locally acquired dengue virus infections in Ghana. We detected dengue viral RNA among children with suspected malaria by using a multipathogen real-time PCR. Subsequent sequence analysis revealed a close relationship with dengue virus serotype 2, which was implicated in a 2016 outbreak in Burkina Faso. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2018
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