Dengue Fever Project: The Yale UCL Collaborative

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Channel: Yale University · 2012 · Science & Technology

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An international group of researchers from diverse fields is working to defeat dengue fever, a sometimes fatal viral infection transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. As many as 100 million people worldwide are infected.  Scientists from Yale University, University College London, and the University of Queensland are applying the tools of virology, immunology, structural and molecular biology, and medicinal chemistry to probe for vulnerabilities in an infectious agent for which there is no specific treatment

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