Chikungunya outbreak, french polynesia, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 724-726

  Aubry, Maite ^a   Teissier, Anita ^a   Roche, Claudine ^a   Richard, Vaea ^a   Yan, Aurore Shan ^a   Zisou, Karen ^a   Rouault, Eline ^a   Maria, Véronique ^a   Lastère, Stéphane ^b   Cao Lormeau, Van Mai ^a   Musso, Didier ^a  

^a INSTITUT LOUIS MALARDÉ   (French Polynesia)

^b Centre Hospitalier de la Polynésie Française   (French Polynesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHIKUNGUNYA; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HISTORY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYNESIA; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENES, VIRAL; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYNESIA;

EID: 84925002869     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2104.141741     Document Type: Letter

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