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SUBMITTER: Soni M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3886578 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soni Manisha M Singh Anil Kumar AK Sharma Shashi S Agarwal Ankita A Gopalan Natarajan N Rao P V Lakshmana PV Parida Manmohan M Dash Paban Kumar PK
TheScientificWorldJournal 20131224
Chikungunya (CHIK) fever is one of the most important arboviral infections of medical significance. The objective of the present study is to identify and characterize the etiology of a focal febrile arthritis outbreak from Gwalior, northern India, during October-November 2010. A detailed virological (isolation) and molecular (end-point RT-PCR, quantitative RT-PCR, and nucleotide sequencing) investigation of this outbreak was carried out by collecting and studying 52 clinical samples and 15 mosqu ...[more]