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

Authors :: Nicholas Amoako
Samuel Duodu
Francis E. Dennis
Joseph H.K. Bonney
Kwaku P. Asante
Juliana Ameh
Lydia Mosi
Takaya Hayashi
Eudosia E. Agbosu
Deborah Pratt
Darwin J. Operario
Barry Fields
Jie Liu
Eric R. Houpt
George E. Armah
Justin Stoler
Gordon A. Awandare
Source :: Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 24, Iss 8, Pp 1544-1547 (2018)
Publication Year :: 2018
Publisher :: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018.
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.