Independent Emergence of the Cosmopolitan Asian Chikungunya Virus, Philippines 2012

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 5; no. 1; p. 12279
• Main Authors: Tan, Kim-Kee, Sy, Ava Kristy D., Tandoc, Amado O., Khoo, Jing-Jing, Sulaiman, Syuhaida, Chang, Li-Yen, AbuBakar, Sazaly
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 23.07.2015; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 45/23; 631/181/757; 631/208/325/2483; 692/699/255/2514; Amino acids; Chikungunya Fever - epidemiology; Chikungunya Fever - virology; Chikungunya virus; Chikungunya virus - classification; Chikungunya virus - genetics; Chikungunya virus - isolation & purification; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - virology; Disease Outbreaks - statistics & numerical data; Female; Genome, Viral - genetics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Male; multidisciplinary; Mutation - genetics; Outbreaks; Philippines - epidemiology; Phylogeny; Science; Vector-borne diseases; Philippines; China

Outbreaks involving the Asian genotype Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) caused over one million infections in the Americas recently. The outbreak was preceded by a major nationwide outbreak in the Philippines. We examined the phylogenetic and phylogeographic relationships of representative CHIKV isolates o...