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Dengue Virus ‘Evolved Dramatically’ In India, Is More Severe: Study

OMMCOM NEWS by OMMCOM NEWS
May 2, 2023
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New Delhi:  Dengue virus has evolved to be more severe in India, said a team of scientists led by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), stressing the need for developing a vaccine against the strains found in the country.

In a multi-institutional study on dengue, published in the journal PLoS Pathogens, the scientists showed how the virus causing the disease has evolved dramatically over the last few decades in the Indian subcontinent.

Cases of dengue — a mosquito-borne viral disease — have steadily increased in the last 50 years, predominantly in the South-East Asian countries.

And yet, there are no approved vaccines against dengue in India, although some vaccines have been developed in other countries.

“We were trying to understand how different the Indian variants are, and we found that they are very different from the original strains used to develop the vaccines,” said Rahul Roy, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering (CE), IISc.

The team examined all available (408) genetic sequences of Indian dengue strains from infected patients collected between the years 1956 and 2018 by others as well as the team themselves.

There are four broad categories — serotypes — of the dengue virus (Dengue 1, 2, 3 and 4). Using computational analysis, the team examined how much each of these serotypes deviated from their ancestral sequence, from each other, and from other global sequences.

“We found that the sequences are changing in a very complex fashion,” Roy said.

Until 2012, the dominant strains in India were Dengue 1 and 3. But in recent years, Dengue 2 has become more dominant across the country, while Dengue 4 — once considered the least infectious — is now making a niche for itself in South India, the researchers found.

The team sought to investigate what factors decide which strain is the dominant one at any given time.

One possible factor could be Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE), said Suraj Jagtap, doctoral student at CE.

Jagtap explained that sometimes, people might be infected first with one serotype and then develop a secondary infection with a different serotype, leading to more severe symptoms.

Scientists believe that if the second serotype is similar to the first, the antibodies in the host’s blood generated after the first infection bind to the new serotype and bind to immune cells called macrophages.

This proximity allows the newcomer to infect macrophages, making the infection more severe.

“We knew that ADE enhances severity, (but) we wanted to know if that can also change the evolution of dengue virus,” Jagtap added.

At any given time, several strains of each serotype exist in the viral population. The antibodies generated in the human body after a primary infection provide complete protection from all serotypes for about 2-3 years. Over time, the antibody levels begin to drop, and cross-serotype protection is lost.

The researchers propose that if the body is infected around this time by a similar — not identical — viral strain, then ADE kicks in, giving a huge advantage to this new strain, causing it to become the dominant strain in the population. Such an advantage lasts for a few more years, after which the antibody levels become too low to make a difference.

“This is what is new about this paper,” Roy said. “Nobody has shown such interdependence between the dengue virus and the immunity of the human population before.”

This is probably why the recent Dengue 4 strains, which supplanted the Dengue 1 and 3 strains, were more similar to the latter than their own ancestral Dengue 4 strains, the researchers believe.

Such insights are possible only from studying the disease in countries like India with genomic surveillance, explained Roy, because the infection rates here have been historically high, and a huge population carries antibodies from a previous infection.

(IANS)

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