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First Report of the East-Central South African Genotype of Chikungunya Virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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2017

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Thiara Manuele Alves de Souza, Elzinandes Leal de Azeredo, Jéssica Badolato-Corrêa, Paulo Vieira Damasco, Carla Cunha Santos, Fabienne Petitinga-Paiva, Priscila Conrado Guerra Nunes, Luciana Santos Barbosa, Márcio Costa Cipitelli, Thaís Chouin-Carneiro,
PLoS Currents

Abstract

Phylogenetic analysis and molecular characterization reveals the circulation of the ECSA genotype of CHIKV in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and two amino acids substitutions (K211T and V156A) exclusive to the CHIKV strains obtained during the 2016 epidemic, were reported.

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