In our increasingly globalized world, disease strains spread more easily from continent to continent. Tracing the lineage of specific genotypes of dengue allows researchers to better understand how genetic diversity affects transmission dynamics, virulence, and immune protection by vaccination.<\/p>\n Administration of current vaccines protecting against dengue are dependent on serotype of a patient\u2019s existing antibodies. By better understanding the variations in DENV genotypes, scientists hope to be able to develop vaccines that would not require patients to be pre-screened for serotypes. The goal of which is to allow for broader, more efficient vaccination campaigns against this global disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The goal is to allow for broader, more efficient vaccination campaigns against Dengue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120321"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120332,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120321\/revisions\/120332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"David](\"\/camed\/files\/2022\/11\/FACULTY-2018-OFFICIAL-Hamer_David-150x150.jpg\")
Researchers including David Hamer<\/a>, MD, a Boston University faculty member with appointments in Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and the Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, co-authored an Ideas and Opinions article<\/a>, \u201cResurgence of Dengue in the Era of Genomic Surveillance and Vaccines\u201d published in Annals of Internal Medicine this month. The article posits that \u201cmolecular epidemiologic data from whole-genome sequencing [of dengue serotypes] could enhance dengue outbreak preparedness.\u201d<\/p>\n