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| Author(s): |
Paula Fernanda Gonçalves
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Ribeirão Preto. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2007-06-22 |
| Examining board members: |
Victor Hugo Aquino Quintana;
Ana Lucia da Costa Darini;
Benedito Antonio Lopes da Fonseca
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| Advisor: | Victor Hugo Aquino Quintana |
| Abstract | |
Dengue is an infectious disease caused by dengue virus (genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae), transmitted by the bite of arthropods of the Aedes genus, mainly Aedes aegypti, and being currently an important problem of public health worldwide. According to the World Health Organization, about 50 the 100 million people are infected annually in more than 100 countries of all continents. Dengue can be presented in three main clinical forms; undifferentiated febrile illness, classic dengue fever (DF) and hemorrhagic dengue fever with or without shock (DHF/DSS). Recently, a dramatically increase of DHF/DSS cases in the Americas have been seen, and this increase coincided with the introduction of the dengue type 3, genotype III. In this work, we have completely characterized the genome of a Brazilian dengue type 3 (D3BR/RP1/2003 strain) isolated from a DF patient. The viral genome possesses a size of 10707 nucleotides and has a unique open reading frame (position 95 to 10264), flanked by two untranslated regions (UTR5\', 1 to 94; UTR3\', 10268 to 10707). The comparison of the viral genome with other viruses isolated from patients with DF and DHF did not show significant differences to suggest the presence of a genetic factor associate with virulence. Phylogenetic analysis based on the complete genome showed that D3BR/RP1/2003 strain belongs to genotype III and is close related to another virus isolated in Rio de Janeiro in 2002. However, when the phylogenetic analysis was based on the individual coding regions of E and NS5 proteins, D3BR/RP1/2003 strain was closely related to a virus isolated in the Island of Martinique in the Caribbean. This finding suggests that D3BR/RP1/2003 strain could have been originated through an event of recombination between different virus strains before or after its introduction to Brazil. Data supporting recombination events between viruses isolated in Asia have also been observed. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 05/04181-3 - Construction of dengue type 3 infectious cDNA: analysis of the 5' noncoding region |
| Grantee: | Paula Fernanda Gonçalves |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |