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Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 282734, 5 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/282734
Research Article

Chloroquine Inhibits Dengue Virus Type 2 Replication in Vero Cells but Not in C6/36 Cells

Kleber Juvenal Silva Farias,1,2 Paula Renata Lima Machado,1,2 and Benedito Antônio Lopes da Fonseca1

1Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
2Program of Graduate Studies on Applied Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil

Received 30 November 2012; Accepted 23 December 2012

Academic Editors: V. H. Aquino and M. R. T. Nunes

Copyright © 2013 Kleber Juvenal Silva Farias et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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