Genetic Characterization of Northwestern Colombian Chikungunya Virus Strain from the 2014-2015 Epidemic

ABSTRACT: Chikungunya fever, an acute and often chronic arthralgic disease caused by the mosquito-borne alphavirus, chikungunya virus (CHIKV), spread into the Americas in late 2013. Since then it has caused epidemics in nearly all New World countries, the second largest being Colombia with over 450,...

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Autores:

Rodas González, Juan David
Díaz Castrillón, Francisco Javier
Kautz, Tiffany
Camacho, Erwin
Paternina, Luis
Guzmán, Hilda
Blanco, Pedro
Tesh, Robert
Weaver, Scott C.

Tipo de recurso:

Article of investigation

Fecha de publicación:

2016

Institución:

Universidad de Antioquia

Repositorio:

Repositorio UdeA

Idioma:

eng

OAI Identifier:

oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/31614

Acceso en línea:

https://hdl.handle.net/10495/31614

Palabra clave:

Aedes - virología
Aedes - virology
Fiebre Chikungunya
Chikungunya Fever
Virus Chikungunya
Chikungunya virus

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openAccess

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/