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Chikungunya outbreaks caused by African genotype, India.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2006
Yergolkar Prasanna N, Tandale Babasaheb V, Arankalle Vidya A, Sathe Padmakar S, Sudeep A B, Gandhe Swati S, Gokhle Mangesh D, Jacob George P, Hundekar Supriya L, Mishra Akhilesh C
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Chikungunya fever is reported in India after 32 years. Immunoglobulin M antibodies and virus isolation confirmed the cause. Phylogenic analysis based on partial sequences of NS4 and E1 genes showed that all earlier isolates (1963-1973) were Asian genotype, whereas the current and Yawat (2000) isolates were African genotype.
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