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...
Source: Viruses - Category: Virology Authors: Francesco Vairo Martin Parfait Aim è 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 Judica ël Emanu Tags: Article Source Type: research
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