Emergence and potential for spread of Chikungunya virus in Brazil

Márcio Roberto Teixeira Nunes,Nuno Rodrigues Faria,Janaina Mota de Vasconcelos,Nick Golding,Moritz U. G. Kraemer,Layanna Freitas de Oliveira,Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo,Daisy Elaine Andrade da Silva,Eliana Vieira Pinto da Silva,Sandro Patroca da Silva,Valéria Lima Carvalho,Giovanini Evelim Coelho,Ana Cecília Ribeiro Cruz,Sueli Guerreiro Rodrigues,João Vianez,Bruno Tardelli Diniz Nunes,Jedson Ferreira Cardoso,Robert B. Tesh,Simon I. Hay,Oliver G. Pybus,Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos

Emergence and potential for spread of Chikungunya virus in Brazil

2015

In December 2013, an outbreak of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) caused by the Asian genotype was notified in the Caribbean. The outbreak has since spread to 38 regions in the Americas. By September 2014, the first autochthonous CHIKV infections were confirmed in Oiapoque, North Brazil, and in Feira de Santana, Northeast Brazil.

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Virus
Chikungunya
Virology
Chikungunya fever
Outbreak
Public health
Genotype
Medicine
northeast brazil
spatial prediction
infant newborn
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