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Outbreak of Chikungunya virus in the north Caribbean area of Colombia: clinical presentation and phylogenetic analysis
29 Oct 2015
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INTRODUCTION: The Caribbean area of Colombia has been severely affected by a Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreak since 2014. METHODOLOGY: The study was carried out on 100 patients during a fever outbreak from August to September 2014 in two small rural villages in the northern Caribbean area of Colombia. The molecular assays performed by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) on acute patient...
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