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Emergent chikungunya fever and vertical transmission in Yunnan Province, China, 2019.
Archives of virology - 1 May 2021
Yin XiaoXiong, Hu Ting-Song, Zhang HaiLin, Liu YongHua, Zhou ZhiJian, Liu LeBin, Li Ping, Wang YiYin, Yang ZhaoLan, Yu Jing, Chen SiYu, Zhang Fu-Qiang
Abstract excerpt
During the dengue epidemic in Yunnan Province, China, during 2019, a concurrent outbreak of chikungunya occurred in the city of Ruili, which is located in the southwest of the province, adjacent to Myanmar. As part of this outbreak, three neonatal cases of infection with indigenous chikungunya virus from mother-to-child (vertical) transmission were observed. Isolates of chikungunya virus were obtained from 37...
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