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Chikungunya Virus Infection of Cell Lines: Analysis of the East, Central and South African Lineage
27 Jan 2012
Abstract excerpt
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito borne alphavirus that has caused large scale epidemics in the countries around the Indian Ocean, as well as leading to autochthonous transmission in some European countries. The transmission of the disease has been driven by the emergence of an African lineage of CHIKV with enhanced transmission and dissemination in Aedes mosquito hosts. Two main genotypes of...
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