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Epidemic resurgence of Chikungunya virus in democratic Republic of the Congo: Identification of a new central African strain
Author(s) -
Pastorino B.,
MuyembeTamfum J.J.,
Bessaud M.,
Tock F.,
Tolou H.,
Durand J.P.,
Peyrefitte C.N.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.20168
Subject(s) - chikungunya , virology , virus , biology , alphavirus
Abstract The resurgence of Chikungunya virus is described during an urban epidemic in Kinshasa Democratic Republic of the Congo, after 39 years without any isolation of the virus. Chikungunya virus was isolated in sera from nine patients with clinical symptoms. A 1,200 bp long partial sequence of the E1/3'UTR genomic region was determined for each isolate. All sequences clustered in the central African lineage. They constitute Chikungunya virus reference sequences for the Democratic Republic of the Congo. J. Med. Virol. 74:277–282, 2004. © 2004 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.