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BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-356
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- Institut pour la Recherche et le Developpement
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- Government of Gabon
- Total-Fina-Elf Gabon
- French Ministere des affaires Etrangeres et Europeennes, France
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Background: Dengue is now a leading cause of morbidity and mortality throughout the tropics. We conducted the first ex vivo study of dengue fever (DF) in African patients infected during the first Gabonese dengue virus 2 (DENV-2) outbreak in 2007, in order to investigate cytokine production, including the antiviral cytokine IFN-alpha, reported to be a potent inhibitor of DENV replication in vitro. Methods: Levels of 50 cytokines, chemokines and growth factors were measured in plasma from 36 patients with DENV-2 infection, and in uninfected controls, using Luminex multiplex technology. The results were interpreted according to the day of sampling after symptom onset. PBMC from six patients were also studied for T lymphocyte cell surface marker expression by flow cytometry. Results: Acute DENV-2 infection elicited high levels of several pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-6 and IL-17), chemokines (MIF, RANTES, IP-10 and MCP-1) and growth factors (G-CSF, GM-CSF and VEGF-A). We also observed high levels of IFN-a for the first time in adult DF patients, and CD4+ and CD8+ T cell activation at symptom onset. Conclusion: Acute DENV-2 infection in African patients elicits a strong innate response involving IFN-a production, as well as an adaptive immune response.
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