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Independent Emergence of the Cosmopolitan Asian Chikungunya Virus, Philippines 2012.
Scientific reports - 23 Jul 2015
Tan Kim-Kee, Sy Ava Kristy D, Tandoc Amado O, Khoo Jing-Jing, Sulaiman Syuhaida, Chang Li-Yen, AbuBakar Sazaly
Abstract excerpt
Outbreaks involving the Asian genotype Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) caused over one million infections in the Americas recently. The outbreak was preceded by a major nationwide outbreak in the Philippines. We examined the phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships of representative CHIKV isolates obtained from the 2012 Philippines outbreak with other CHIKV isolates collected globally. Asian CHIKV isolated from...
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