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Chikungunya virus transmission in the Southernmost state of Brazil was characterized by self-limited cases (2017–2019) and a larger 2021 outbreak
2022-10-03
Abstract excerpt
Chikungunya is a reemerging arthropod-borne virus that has been causing large outbreaks in the Americas. In Brazil, Asian-Caribbean and ECSA genotypes have been detected and lead to large outbreaks in several states since 2014. In Rio Grande do Sul (RS), the southernmost State, the first autochthonous cases were reported in 2016. We employed genome sequencing and epidemiological investigation to characterize the i...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ba9f3f6c-3633-5cef-8e0c-47a65e963710
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.09.30.510389
