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Science 6 August 1965:
Vol. 149. no. 3684, pp. 638 - 639
DOI: 10.1126/science.149.3684.638
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Dengue Type 2 Virus in Naturally Infected Aedes albopictus Mosquitoes in Singapore

A. Rudnick 1 and Y. C. Chan 2

1 George Williams Hooper Foundation, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco 94122
2 Department of Bacteriology, University of Singapore, Singapore 3, Malaysia

A strain of dengue type 2 virus has been isolated from Aedes albopictus collected in Singapore. This is the first report of a natural isolation of dengue virus from this species, which has long been suspected as a vector in nature.

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