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Chikungunya emergency in China: microevolution and genetic analysis for a local outbreak.
Virus genes - 1 Feb 2014
Lu Xi, Li Xiaobo, Mo Ziyao, Jin Faguang, Wang Boliang, Huang Junfeng, Huang Jicheng, Zhao Hongbo, Shi Lei
Abstract excerpt
A small-scale local chikungunya outbreak occurred in a Guangdong village of southern China in October 2010. The five chikungunya viruses (CHIKV) isolated from the epidemic and three other imported cases obtained from the same period were sequenced and analyzed for phylogenesis. The results demonstrated that all of the eight sequences were clustered in the Eastern, Central, Southern, and African group. However,...
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