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Emerg Infect Dis
; 23(10): 1742-1744, 2017 10.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28930031
RESUMO
We investigated an outbreak of exanthematous illness in Maceió by using molecular surveillance; 76% of samples tested positive for chikungunya virus. Genetic analysis of 23 newly generated genomes identified the East/Central/South African genotype, suggesting that this lineage has persisted since mid-2014 in Brazil and may spread in the Americas and beyond.