Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1020: Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019 —Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation

Viruses, Vol. 12, Pages 1020: Chikungunya Outbreak in the Republic of the Congo, 2019—Epidemiological, Virological and Entomological Findings of a South-North Multidisciplinary Taskforce Investigation Viruses doi: 10.3390/v12091020 Authors: Francesco Vairo Martin Parfait Aimè Coussoud-Mavoungou Francine Ntoumi Concetta Castilletti Lambert Kitembo Najmul Haider Fabrizio Carletti Francesca Colavita Cesare E.M. Gruber Marco Iannetta Francesco Messina Simone Lanini Biez Ulrich Judicaël Emanuela Giombini Chiara Montaldo Chantal Portella Steve Diafouka-Diatela Martina Rueca Richard Kock Barbara Bartolini Leonard Mboera Vincent Munster Robert Fischer Stephanie Seifert César Muñoz-Fontela Beatriz Escudero-Pérez Sergio Gomez-Medina Emily V. Nelson Patrick Kjia Tungu Emanuele Nicastri Vincenzo Puro Antonino Di Caro Maria Rosaria Capobianchi Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo Alimuddin Zumla Giuseppe Ippolito the Pandora-ID-NET consortium Chikungunya Outbreak Group Taskforce : The Republic of Congo (RoC) declared a chikungunya (CHIK) outbreak on 9 February 2019. We conducted a ONE-Human-Animal HEALTH epidemiological, virological and entomological investigation. Methods: We collected national surveillance and epidemiological data. CHIK diagnosis was based on RT-PCR and CHIKV-specific antibodies. Full CHIKV genome sequences were obtained by Sanger and MinION approaches and Bayesian tree phylogenetic analysis was p...
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