Chikungunya virus isolated in Lakshadweep islands in the Indian Ocean: evidence of the Central/East African genotype.

نویسندگان

  • Rajaiah Paramasivan
  • Paulraj Philip Samuel
  • Velayutham Thenmozhi
  • Rathinasamy Rajendran
  • Soosaimanickam Victor Jerald Leo
  • Kutty Jagadeeswaran Dhananjeyan
  • Ranganathan Krishnamoorthi
  • Natarajan Arunachalam
  • Brij Kishore Tyagi
چکیده

Virological investigation was carried out to determine the etiology of suspected Chikungunya fever among humans reported in the Lakshadweep islands in the Indian Ocean. Three out of 23 acute sera samples showed cytopathological changes in Vero cell lines. Further, indirect immunofluorescence antibody test and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction studies demonstrated the Chikungunya virus etiology during the episode. E1 gene sequence analysis has confirmed the involvement of the Central/East African genotype of the Chikungunya virus.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Japanese journal of infectious diseases

دوره 62 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009