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Northward movement of East Central South African genotype of Chikungunya virus causing an epidemic between 2006-2010 in India.
Journal of infection in developing countries - 23 Jul 2012
Singh Priyanka, Mittal Veena, Rizvi Moshahid A, Bhattacharya Dipesh, Chhabra Mala, Rawat Devendra S, Ichhpujani Rattan L, Chauhan Lakhvir S, Rai Arvind
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INTRODUCTION: Re-emergence of chikungunya virus in South India after a gap of 32 years in 2006 affected over a million people in the Indian subcontinent. We kept a close vigil over the emerging trend of this virus between 2006-2010 with a view to establish the identity of the circulating genotype(s) and to determine the route of virus transmission in different parts of India. METHODOLOGY: Nucleotide sequencing of...
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