Nonindigenous East/Central/South African genotype of chikungunya virus identified in febrile returning travellers in Yunnan, China

Journal of Infection

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2020, Pages 469-496

  Feng, Yue ^a   Xiao, Hui ^a   Li, Xiaofei ^b   Lu, Yunlan ^c   Li, Jie ^c   Zheng, Mengyuan ^a   Lv, Dongbiao ^c   Yuan, Wei ^c   Zhang, Ziyang ^c   Zhou, Yan ^c   Liang, Yuebo ^c   Qin, Weihong ^c   Xia, Xueshan ^a  

^a KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Third People's Hospital of Kunming   (China)

^c Yunnan international travel healthcare center ^*  (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRAL AFRICAN; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHILL; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; E1 GENE; E2 GENE; EAST AFRICAN; FEMALE; FEVER; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IMPORT DISEASE; LETTER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; RASH; REAL TIME REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTH AFRICAN; TRAVEL; VIRUS GENE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS INFECTIVITY; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS STRAIN; VOMITING; YOUNG ADULT; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS;

CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEVER; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 85081903667     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2019.12.014     Document Type: Letter

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