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Recent outbreaks of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in Africa and Asia are driven by a variant carrying mutations associated with increased fitness for <i>Aedes aegypti</i>

2018-07-20

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<h4>Background</h4> In 2016, a chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreak was reported in Mandera, Kenya. This was the first major CHIKV outbreak in the country since the global re-emergence of this virus, which arose as an initial outbreak in Kenya in 2004. Therefore, we collected samples and sequenced viral genomes from the 2016 Mandera outbreak. <h4>Methodology/Principal Findings</h4> All Kenyan genomes contained two...

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DOI: 10.1101/373316

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