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SUBMITTER: Kautz TF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4622247 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kautz Tiffany F TF Díaz-González Esteban E EE Erasmus Jesse H JH Malo-García Iliana R IR Langsjoen Rose M RM Patterson Edward I EI Auguste Dawn I DI Forrester Naomi L NL Sanchez-Casas Rosa Maria RM Hernández-Ávila Mauricio M Alpuche-Aranda Celia M CM Weaver Scott C SC Fernández-Salas Ildefonso I
Emerging infectious diseases 20151101 11
Since chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was introduced into the Americas in 2013, its geographic distribution has rapidly expanded. Of 119 serum samples collected in 2014 from febrile patients in southern Mexico, 79% were positive for CHIKV or IgM against CHIKV. Sequencing results confirmed CHIKV strains closely related to Caribbean isolates. ...[more]