Chikungunya Outbreak in Guangdong Province, China, 2010

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Wu, De ; Wu, Jie ; Zhang, Qiaoli ; Zhong, Haojie ; Ke, Changwen ; Deng, Xiaoling ; Guan, Dawei ; Li, Hui ; Zhang, Yonghui ; Zhou, Huiqiong ; He, Jianfeng ; Li, Linghui ; Yang, Xingfen
• Description:
  A disease outbreak with dengue-like symptoms was reported in Guangdong Province, China, in October 2010. Testing results confirmed that the pathogen causing the outbreak was chikungunya virus. Phylogenic analysis indicated that this virus was a member of the Indian Ocean clade of the East/Center/South African subgroup of chikungunya virus.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 And Over Alphavirus Infections Antibodies, Viral Chikungunya Virus Child Child, Preschool Disease Outbreaks Dispatch Female Humans Immunoglobulin M Incidence Male Middle Aged Phylogeny Sequence Analysis, DNA Viral Envelope Proteins Young Adult

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• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 18(3):493-495.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  China
• Location:
  Asia
• Volume:
  18
• Issue:
  3
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e7297ab115a2e87f39b40c244ca2b3c95e41b3d84e40dcd415938089058ea7ca
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23810/cdc_23810_DS1.pdf
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