Chikungunya in the Americas

The Lancet

Volumn 383, Issue 9916, 2014, Pages 514-

  Leparc Goffart, Isabelle ^a   Nougairede, Antoine ^b   Cassadou, Sylvie ^c   Prat, Christine ^a   De Lamballerie, Xavier ^b  

^a IRBA Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c CIRE Antilles Guyane InVS ^*  (Guadeloupe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRUS RNA;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AFRICA; CHIKUNGUNYA; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENVELOPE GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 84893280395     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)60185-9     Document Type: Letter

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