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SUBMITTER: Tanabe ELL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5956549 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo 20180423
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes a self-limiting disease characterized by the onset of fever, skin rash and persistent arthralgia. In the last decade, it has emerged as a serious public health problem causing several outbreaks around the world. Here, we report the CHIKV genotype characterization during the 2016 CHIKV outbreak in Alagoas State, Brazil. Partial E1 sequence from CHIKV-positive samples coming from different cities of Alagoas were submitted to DNA sequencing followed by phylogenetic ...[more]