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ReviewFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology2020

Dysfunctional Innate Immune Responses and Severe Dengue.

Gathsaurie Neelika Malavige, Chandima Jeewandara, Graham S Ogg

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Review in Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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49citing papers in PubMed
5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Innate Immune and Inflammatory Responses to Dengue Virus Infection.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2026
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  8. Dengue and severe dengue.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2025
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  10. Genetic ancestry shapes dengue virus infection in human skin explants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  19. A Scoping Review of Arthropod-Borne Flavivirus Infections in Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.Transplant infectious disease : an official journal of the Transplantation Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gathsaurie Neelika MalavigeCentre for Dengue Research, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
Chandima JeewandaraCentre for Dengue Research, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
Graham S OggCentre for Dengue Research, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
University of Oxford · GBUniversity of Sri Jayewardenepura · LK

Funding

Medical Research Council G116/150Medical Research Council MC_U137881017Medical Research Council MC_UU_00008/5Medical Research Council MC_UU_12010/5
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although infection with the dengue virus (DENV) causes severe dengue, it causes a mild self-limiting illness in the majority of individuals. There is emerging evidence that an aberrant immune response in the initial stages of infection lead to severe disease. Many inflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and lipid mediators are significantly higher in patients with severe dengue compared to those who develop mild infection, during febrile phase of illness. Monocytes, mast cells, and many other cells of the immune system, when infected with the DENV, especially in the presence of poorly neutralizing antibodies, leads to production of pro-inflammatory cytokines and inhibition of interferon signaling pathways. In addition, production of immunosuppressive cytokines such as IL-10 further leads to inhibition of cellular antiviral responses. This dysregulated and aberrant immune response leads to reduced clearance of the virus, and severe dengue by inducing a vascular leak and excessive inflammation due to high levels of inflammatory cytokines. Individuals with comorbid illnesses could be prone to more severe dengue due to low grade endotoxemia, gut microbial dysbiosis and an altered phenotype of innate immune cells. The immunosuppressive and inflammatory lipid mediators and altered phenotype of monocytes are likely to further act on T cells and B cells leading to an impaired adaptive immune response to the virus. Therefore, in order to identify therapeutic targets for treatment of dengue, it would be important to further characterize these mechanisms in order for early intervention. In this review, we discuss the differences in the innate immune responses in those who progress to develop severe dengue, compared to those with milder disease in order to understand the mechanisms that lead to severe dengue.

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DengueDengue VirusSevere DengueCytokinesHumansImmunity, InnateCytokinesantibody dependent enhancementB cellsdengueendotoxininnate immunitymast cellsmonocytesT cells

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PMID33194836
PMCPMC7644808
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