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Emerg Infect Dis
; 18(12): 2066-9, 2012 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23171736
RESUMO
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), probably Asian genotype, was first detected in Cambodia in 1961. Despite no evidence of acute or recent CHIKV infections since 2000, real-time reverse transcription PCR of serum collected in 2011 detected CHIKV, East Central South African genotype. Spatiotemporal patterns and phylogenetic clustering indicate that the virus probably originated in Thailand.