2019-02-26Zeitschriftenartikel
Emergence of the East-Central-South-African genotype of Chikungunya virus in Brazil and the city of Rio de Janeiro may have occurred years before surveillance detection
Souza, Thiago Moreno L.; Rangel Vieira, Yasmine; Delatorre, Edson; Barbosa-Lima, Giselle; Luiz, Raul Leal Faria; Vizzoni, Alexandre; Jain, Komal; Mesquita Miranda, Milene; Bhuva, Nishit; Gogarten, Jan F.; Ng, James; Thakkar, Riddhi; Surrage Calheiros, Andrea; Monteiro, Ana Paula Teixeira; Bozza, Fernando A.; Tschoeke, Diogo A.; Leomil, Luciana; de Mendonça, Marcos Cesar Lima; dos Santos Rodrigues, Cintia Damasceno; Torres, Maria C.; Bispo de Filippis, Ana Maria; Ribeiro Nogueira, Rita Maria; Thompson, Fabiano L.; Lemos, Christina; Durovni, Betina; Cerbino-Neto, José; Morel, Carlos M.; Lipkin, W. Ian; Mishra, Nischay
Brazil, which is hyperendemic for dengue virus (DENV), has had recent Zika (ZIKV) and (CHIKV) Chikungunya virus outbreaks. Since March 2016, CHIKV is the arbovirus infection most frequently diagnosed in Rio de Janeiro. In ...