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Chikungunya virus isolated in Lakshadweep islands in the Indian Ocean: evidence of the Central/East African genotype.
Japanese journal of infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2009
Paramasivan Rajaiah, Philip Samuel Paulraj, Thenmozhi Velayutham, Rajendran Rathinasamy, Victor Jerald Leo Soosaimanickam, Dhananjeyan Kutty Jagadeeswaran, Krishnamoorthi Ranganathan, Arunachalam Natarajan, Tyagi Brij Kishore
Abstract excerpt
Virological investigation was carried out to determine the etiology of suspected Chikungunya fever among humans reported in the Lakshadweep islands in the Indian Ocean. Three out of 23 acute sera samples showed cytopathological changes in Vero cell lines. Further, indirect immunofluorescence anti...
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