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. 2007 Jan;13(1):147-9.
doi: 10.3201/eid1301.060617.

Reemergence of endemic Chikungunya, Malaysia

Sazaly AbuBakar  1 , I-Ching Sam, Pooi-Fong Wong, Noraziyah MatRahim, Poh-Sim Hooi, Nuruliza Roslan
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Reemergence of endemic Chikungunya, Malaysia

Sazaly AbuBakar et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 Jan.

Abstract

Chikungunya virus infection recently reemerged in Malaysia after 7 years of nondetection. Genomic sequences of recovered isolates were highly similar to those of Malaysian isolates from the 1998 outbreak. The reemergence of the infection is not part of the epidemics in other Indian Ocean countries but raises the possibility that chikungunya virus is endemic in Malaysia.

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Phylogenetic relationships of chikungunya virus isolates from the Malaysia 2006 outbreak. The neighbor-joining tree was constructed using nucleic acid sequences of the envelope glycoprotein E1 gene, with O’nyong nyong virus (GenBank accession no. NC_001512) as the outgroup virus. * indicates isolates from the Malaysia 2006 outbreak; † indicates Australia SM287. Bootstrap values are shown as percentages derived from 1,000 samplings. The scale reflects the number of nucleotide substitutions per site along the branches.
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