Three serotypes of dengue virus circulated in hospitalized adult patients in an endemic metropolitan city of Northern Vietnam

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

Funding

This study was a part of the “Metropolitan Mosquitoes Project” funded by the Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas, grant number 2016-00364).

Data availability statement

The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/supplementary material, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding authors.

Authors’ contributions

J.F.L and T.N.T: conceptualization; T.N.T, J.L, T.D.D and J.F.L: methodology; T.N.T, D.D.C, L.X.L: ethics; T.N.T, J.F.L and C.D.D: data collection supervisor; T.N.T, A.N.B, T.D.D, J.L and J.F.L: data analysis; T.N.T: writing original draft version; D.G, H.N.V, A.L and J.F.L: supervision; all the authors: review and editing.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the research assistants (Ms. Dinh Thi Hai, Mr. Nguyen Hoang Nam), all the doctors and nurses of Infectious Diseases Department of Bach Mai Hospital for their support in data collection. We also sincerely thank all the patients participating in this study. Last but not the least, we want to give a big thank to Ms. Nguyen Le Thanh and Ms. Le My Hanh of International Livestock Research Institute in Hanoi for their help in the project administration and finance.

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