Dominant Dengue Virus Serotype Changes
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Fumigation to prevent the spread of dengue fever mosquitoes is carried out in a residential area in Cinangka, Sawangan, Depok, West Java, on Sunday (17/02/2019). The Depok city government continues to promote the prevention of the spread of dengue fever because in January there were 436 sufferers, an increase of 75 compared to the corresponding period last year.
Dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) has spread across several regions in the country. Many people have died due to complications from the disease. Some have suspected that the dengue virus has mutated into a more malignant form, but this does not appear to be the case.
Tedjo Sasmono, the head of the dengue unit at the Eijkman Molecular Biology Institute, said that genomic mutations could increase virulence, such as in Latin America. However, no mutations directly connected to the severity of the disease have been found from among the hundreds of Indonesian dengue virus genomes that were studied.