Molecular characterization of chikungunya virus during the 2019 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Philippe Selhorst,Sheila Makiala-Mandanda,Birgit De Smet,Joachim Mariën,Colin Anthony,Guillaume Binene-Mbuka,Anja De Weggheleire,Gillon Ilombe,Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki,Elisabeth Pukuta Simbu,Leopold Lubula,Placide Mbala-Kingebeni,Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye,Florian Vogt,Francis Watsenga,Wim Van Bortel,Veerle Vanlerberghe,Kevin K. Ariën,Steve Ahuka-Mundeke

Molecular characterization of chikungunya virus during the 2019 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

2020

Philippe Selhorst
Sheila Makiala-Mandanda
Birgit De Smet
Joachim Mariën
Colin Anthony
Guillaume Binene-Mbuka
Anja De Weggheleire
Gillon Ilombe
Eddy Kinganda-Lusamaki
Elisabeth Pukuta Simbu
Leopold Lubula
Placide Mbala-Kingebeni
Antoine Nkuba-Ndaye
Florian Vogt
Francis Watsenga
Wim Van Bortel
Veerle Vanlerberghe
Kevin K. Ariën
Steve Ahuka-Mundeke

Early 2019, a chikungunya virus (CHIKV) outbreak hit the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Though seldomly deadly, this mosquito-borne disease presents as an acute febrile (poly)arthralgia of...

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Aedes albopictus
Virus
Chikungunya
Outbreak
Virology
Geography

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