Epidemiological and genomic investigation of chikungunya virus in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, between 2015 and 2018.

• Main Authors: Filipe Romero Rebello Moreira (Author), Mariane Talon de Menezes (Author), Clarisse Salgado-Benvindo (Author), Charles Whittaker (Author), Victoria Cox (Author), Nilani Chandradeva (Author), Hury Hellen Souza de Paula (Author), André Frederico Martins (Author), Raphael Rangel das Chagas (Author), Rodrigo Decembrino Vargas Brasil (Author), Darlan da Silva Cândido (Author), Alice Laschuk Herlinger (Author), Marisa de Oliveira Ribeiro (Author), Monica Barcellos Arruda (Author), Patricia Alvarez (Author), Marcelo Calado de Paula Tôrres (Author), Ilaria Dorigatti (Author), Oliver Brady (Author), Carolina Moreira Voloch (Author), Amilcar Tanuri (Author), Felipe Iani (Author), William Marciel de Souza (Author), Sergian Vianna Cardozo (Author), Nuno Rodrigues Faria (Author), Renato Santana Aguiar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Since 2014, Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), with several waves of East-Central-South-African (ECSA) lineage transmission reported across the country. In 2018, Rio de Janeiro state, the third most populous state in Brazil, reported 41% of all chik...