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Extensive evolution analysis of the global chikungunya virus strains revealed the origination of CHIKV epidemics in Pakistan in 2016.
Virologica Sinica - 1 Dec 2017
Shi Junming, Su Zhengyuan, Fan Zhaojun, Wang Jun, Liu Siqing, Zhang Bo, Wei Hongping, Jehan Shoukat, Jamil Nadia, Shen Shu, Deng Fei
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne virus that causes epidemics widely in the world especially in the tropical and subtropical regions. Phylogenetic analysis has found that the CHIKV lineages were associated with the spatial and temporal distributions, which were related to the virus adaption to the major mosquito species and their distributions. In this study, we reported the complete genome sequences...
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