Chikungunya virus isolated in Lakshadweep islands in the Indian Ocean: Evidence of the Central/East African genotype

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-69

  Paramasivan, Rajaiah ^a   Samuel, Paulraj Philip ^a   Thenmozhi, Velayutham ^a   Rajendran, Rathinasamy ^a   Soosaimanickam, Victor Jerald Leo ^a   Dhanajeyan, Kutty Jagadeeswaran ^a   Krishnamoorthi, Ranganathan ^a   Arunachalam, Natarajan ^a   Tyagi, Brij Kishore ^a  

^a Centre for Research in Medical Entomology ICMR   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPATHOLOGY; EPIDEMIC; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INDIAN OCEAN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VERO CELL; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; BLOOD; CELL LINE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, EASTERN; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; CELL LINE; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIAN OCEAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 63149108026     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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