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SUBMITTER: Monteiro JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7678967 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Monteiro Joelma D JD Valverde Joanna Gardel JG Morais Ingryd Camara IC Souza Cassio Ricardo de Medeiros CRM Fagundes Neto João Ciro JC Melo Marília Farias de MF Nascimento Yasmin Mesquita YM Alves Brenda Elen Bizerra BEB Medeiros Leandro Gurgel de LG Pereira Hannaly W Bezerra HWB Paiva Anne Aline Pereira de AAP Teixeira Diego G DG Moura Márcia Cristina Bernardo de Melo MCBM Tavares Alessandre de Medeiros AM Fernandes José Veríssimo JV Jeronimo Selma M B SMB Araújo Josélio M G JMG
PloS one 20201120 11
The first autochthonous case of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection in Brazil was in September 2014 in the State of Amapá, and from there it rapidly spread across the country. The present study was conducted in 2016 in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, and the aims were to describe the epidemiological and the clinical aspects of the CHIKV outbreak. Biological samples from 284 chikungunya suspected cases were screened for CHIKV and Flavivirus (FV) RNA using qRT-PCR. Negative PCR samples were also ...[more]