Complete Genome Sequence of Dengue virus Type 2 from a Resident of North-Central Florida with Locally Transmitted Dengue Fever

Sarah K White; Nicole M Iovine; L Connor Nickels; J Glenn Morris Jr; John A Lednicky

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00782-17

Complete Genome Sequence of Dengue virus Type 2 from a Resident of North-Central Florida with Locally Transmitted Dengue Fever

Genome Announc. 2017 Aug 3;5(31):e00782-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00782-17.

Authors

Sarah K White^{1

2}, Nicole M Iovine^{2

3}, L Connor Nickels⁴, J Glenn Morris Jr^{2

3}, John A Lednicky^{5

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
² Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine, University of Florida Health/Shands Hospital, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Florida Health/Shands Hospital, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
⁵ Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA jlednicky@phhp.ufl.edu.

Abstract

The majority of dengue fever cases reported in the United States recently have been imported. We isolated dengue virus type 2 (DENV-2) from a North-Central Florida resident with locally acquired dengue fever in May 2016. This is the first evidence of autochthonous transmission of the virus in north-central Florida.

Grants and funding

R01 AI126357/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States