Utilization of an Eilat Virus-Based Chimera for Serological Detection of Chikungunya Infection.

• Main Authors: Jesse H Erasmus (Author), James Needham (Author), Syamal Raychaudhuri (Author), Michael S Diamond (Author), David W C Beasley (Author), Stan Morkowski (Author), Henrik Salje (Author), Ildefonso Fernandez Salas (Author), Dal Young Kim (Author), Ilya Frolov (Author), Farooq Nasar (Author), Scott C Weaver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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In December of 2013, chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus in the family Togaviridae, was introduced to the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean, resulting in the first autochthonous cases reported in the Americas. As of January 2015, local and imported CHIKV has been reported in 50 American c...