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Detection of East/Central/South African genotype Chikungunya virus during an outbreak in a southeastern state of Brazil.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Dec 2018
Lessa-Aquino C, Trinta K S, Pestana C P, Ribeiro M O, Sucupira M V F, Boia M N, Baptista P A, Cunha R V, Medeiros M A
Abstract excerpt
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes that was first identified in Brazil in 2014. It causes a febrile illness characterised by severe arthralgia and rash. Our group investigated a suspected CHIKV outbreak in Governador Valadares, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil and from 25 acute-phase patients, 10 had qRT-PCR positive sera samples and had E1 partial sequence amplified and Sanger...
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