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Genetic characterization of 2006-2008 isolates of Chikungunya virus from Kerala, South India, by whole genome sequence analysis.
Virus genes - 1 Feb 2010
Sreekumar E, Issac Aneesh, Nair Sajith, Hariharan Ramkumar, Janki M B, Arathy D S, Regu R, Mathew Thomas, Anoop M, Niyas K P, Pillai M R
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a positive-stranded alphavirus, causes epidemic febrile infections characterized by severe and prolonged arthralgia. In the present study, six CHIKV isolates (2006 RGCB03, RGCB05; 2007 RGCB80, RGCB120; 2008 RGCB355, RGCB356) from three consecutive Chikungunya outbreaks in Kerala, South India, were analyzed for genetic variations by sequencing the 11798 bp whole genome of the virus. A...
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