Genome Microevolution of Chikungunya Viruses Causing the Indian Ocean Outbreak

Schuffenecker, Isabelle; Iteman, Isabelle; Michault, Alain; Murri, Séverine; Frangeul, Lionel; Vaney, M.C.; Lavenir, Rachel; Pardigon, Nathalie; Reynes, Jean‐Marc; Pettinelli, François; Biscornet, Leon; Diancourt, Laure; Michel, Stéphanie; Duquerroy, S.; Guigon, Ghislaine; Frenkiel, Marie‐Pascale; Bréhin, Anne‐Claire; Cubito, Nadège; Desprès, Philippe; Kunst, Frank; Rey, F.A.; Zeller, H.; Brisse, Sylvain

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030263

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Genome Microevolution of Chikungunya Viruses Causing the Indian Ocean Outbreak

Published in PLoS Medicine • May 16, 2006

Authors:

Isabelle Schuffenecker

Isabelle Iteman

Alain Michault

Abstract

BACKGROUND: A chikungunya virus outbreak of unprecedented magnitude is currently ongoing in Indian Ocean territories. In Réunion Island, this alphavirus has already infected about one-third of the human population. The main clinical symptom of the disease is a painful and invalidating poly-arthralgi...

Subject

Chikungunya

Virology

Outbreak

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