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Fucose, a new indicator to predict the severity of dengue
Responsible for an average of 500,000 hemorrhagic cases per year, dengue virus threatens more than two and a half billion people worldwide each year. A Study about it, carried out by the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge jointly with the Institut Pasteur and The Rockefeller University, is the subject of a publication in the journal Science. The researchers reveal that absence of a specific sugar, constitutive of the structure of anti-dengue antibodies, fucose, is responsible for these serious forms of the disease.