Spread of Chikungunya Virus East/Central/South African Genotype in Northeast Brazil.

Antonio Charlys da Costa, Julien Thézé, Shirley Cavalcante Vasconcelos Komninakis, Rodrigo Lopes Sanz-Duro, Marta Rejane Lemos Felinto, Lúcia Cristina Corrêa Moura, Ivoneide Moreira de Oliveira Barroso, Lucineide Eliziario Correia Santos, Mardjane Alves de Lemos Nunes, Adriana Avila Moura, José Lourenço, Xutao Deng, Eric L Delwart, Maria Raquel Dos Anjos Silva Guimarães, Oliver G Pybus, Ester C Sabino, Nuno R Faria

Emerging Infectious Diseases 2017 October

We investigated an outbreak of exanthematous illness in Maceió by using molecular surveillance; 76% of samples tested positive for chikungunya virus. Genetic analysis of 23 newly generated genomes identified the East/Central/South African genotype, suggesting that this lineage has persisted since mid-2014 in Brazil and may spread in the Americas and beyond.

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