Epidemic Resurgence of Chikungunya Virus in Democratic Republic of the Congo: Identification of a New Central African Strain

Overview

Journal J Med Virol

Specialty Microbiology

Date 2004 Aug 28

PMID 15332277

Citations 81

Authors

B Pastorino

J J Muyembe-Tamfum

M Bessaud

F Tock

H Tolou

J P Durand

C N Peyrefitte

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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.

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