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The Potential Role of Antigenic Variation in Driving the Dengue Virus Serotype 2

                                       Genotype Shift in the Philippines in the Early 2000

Jean Claude Balingit¹, Ryosuke Suzuki², Mark Pierre Dimamay³, Corazon Buerano³,Yuki Takamatsu¹, Meng Ling Moi⁴, Kouichi Morita¹

1) Department of Virology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

2) Department of Virology II, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

3) Basic Science Research Department, St. Luke’s Medical Center, Quezon City, Philippines

4) Department of Developmental Medical Sciences, School of International Health, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan