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Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells

Dengue has been a significant public health problem in Colombia since the simultaneous circulation of the four dengue virus serotypes. The replicative fitness of dengue is a biological feature important for virus evolution and contributes to elucidating the behavior of virus populations and viral pa...

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Autores principales: Gutiérrez-Barbosa, Hernando, Castañeda, Nadia Y., Castellanos, Jaime E.
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Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9392035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31843340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2019.11.003
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Castañeda, Nadia Y.
Castellanos, Jaime E.
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Castellanos, Jaime E.
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description Dengue has been a significant public health problem in Colombia since the simultaneous circulation of the four dengue virus serotypes. The replicative fitness of dengue is a biological feature important for virus evolution and contributes to elucidating the behavior of virus populations and viral pathogenesis. However, it has not yet been studied in Colombian isolates. This study aimed to compare the replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes and understand the association between the serotypes, their in vitro infection ability, and their replication in target cells. We used three isolates of each DENV serotype to infect Huh-7 cells at an MOI of 0.5. The percentage of infected cells was evaluated by flow cytometry, cell viability was evaluated by MTT assay, and the pathogenicity index was calculated as a ratio of both parameters. The replicative fitness was measured by the number of viral genome copies produced using quantitative PCR and the production of infectious viral progeny was measured by plaque assay. We showed that Huh-7 cells were susceptible to infection with all the different strain isolates. Nevertheless, the biological characteristics, such as infectious ability and cell viability, were strain-dependent. We also found different degrees of pathogenicity between strains of the four serotypes, representative of the heterogeneity displayed in the circulating population. When we analyzed the replicative fitness using the mean values obtained from RT-qPCR and plaque assay for the different strains, we found serotype-dependent behavior. The highest mean values of replicative fitness were obtained for DENV-1 (log 4.9 PFU/ml) and DENV-4 (log 5.28 PFU/ml), followed by DENV-2 (log 3.9 PFU/ml) and DENV-3 (log 4.31 PFU/ml). The internal heterogeneity of the replicative fitness within each serotype could explain the simultaneous circulation of the four DENV serotypes in Colombia.
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spelling pubmed-93920352022-08-23 Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells Gutiérrez-Barbosa, Hernando Castañeda, Nadia Y. Castellanos, Jaime E. Braz J Infect Dis Original Article Dengue has been a significant public health problem in Colombia since the simultaneous circulation of the four dengue virus serotypes. The replicative fitness of dengue is a biological feature important for virus evolution and contributes to elucidating the behavior of virus populations and viral pathogenesis. However, it has not yet been studied in Colombian isolates. This study aimed to compare the replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes and understand the association between the serotypes, their in vitro infection ability, and their replication in target cells. We used three isolates of each DENV serotype to infect Huh-7 cells at an MOI of 0.5. The percentage of infected cells was evaluated by flow cytometry, cell viability was evaluated by MTT assay, and the pathogenicity index was calculated as a ratio of both parameters. The replicative fitness was measured by the number of viral genome copies produced using quantitative PCR and the production of infectious viral progeny was measured by plaque assay. We showed that Huh-7 cells were susceptible to infection with all the different strain isolates. Nevertheless, the biological characteristics, such as infectious ability and cell viability, were strain-dependent. We also found different degrees of pathogenicity between strains of the four serotypes, representative of the heterogeneity displayed in the circulating population. When we analyzed the replicative fitness using the mean values obtained from RT-qPCR and plaque assay for the different strains, we found serotype-dependent behavior. The highest mean values of replicative fitness were obtained for DENV-1 (log 4.9 PFU/ml) and DENV-4 (log 5.28 PFU/ml), followed by DENV-2 (log 3.9 PFU/ml) and DENV-3 (log 4.31 PFU/ml). The internal heterogeneity of the replicative fitness within each serotype could explain the simultaneous circulation of the four DENV serotypes in Colombia. Elsevier 2019-12-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9392035/ /pubmed/31843340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2019.11.003 Text en © 2019 Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia. Published by Elsevier España, S.L.U. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells
title Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells
title_full Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells
title_fullStr Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells
title_full_unstemmed Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells
title_short Differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in Colombia in human liver Huh7 cells
title_sort differential replicative fitness of the four dengue virus serotypes circulating in colombia in human liver huh7 cells
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9392035/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31843340
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2019.11.003
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