Whole-genome sequencing analysis of the Chikungunya virus during 2021 outbreak in Malaysia

Abstract excerpt

<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Chikungunya cases was reported to be on the rise in Malaysia from 2019 to 2021. Although potential endemicity was described previously, genotype shift during 2008 outbreak originating from the 2004 Indian Ocean Islands outbreak presents the probability of current CHIKV spread from neighboring countries. This is due to the prevalence of the new IOL sub-lineage which consists o...

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• Chikungunya Fever
• Chikungunya virus
• Disease Outbreaks
• Genome, Viral
• Genotype
• Malaysia
• Phylogeny
• Whole Genome Sequencing

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Literature Corpus work

686e7a15-50a2-53fd-81f9-4dcf078b47e3

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-4877663/v1