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Case Reports
. 2007 May;13(5):768-71.
doi: 10.3201/eid1305.061500.

Chikungunya virus, Cameroon, 2006

Christophe N Peyrefitte  1 , Dominique Rousset, Boris A M Pastorino, Regis Pouillot, Maël Bessaud, Fabienne Tock, Helene Mansaray, Olivier L Merle, Aurelie M Pascual, Christophe Paupy, Aurelia Vessiere, Patrice Imbert, Patrice Tchendjou, Jean-Paul Durand, Hugues J Tolou, Marc Grandadam
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Chikungunya virus, Cameroon, 2006

Christophe N Peyrefitte et al. Emerg Infect Dis. 2007 May.

Abstract

We report the isolation of chikungunya virus from a patient during an outbreak of a denguelike syndrome in Cameroon in 2006. The virus was phylogenetically grouped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cluster, indicating a continuous circulation of a genetically similar chikungunya virus population during 6 years in Central Africa.

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Phylogenetic tree of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) based on partial nucleotide sequences (3′ extremity of E1/3′-UTR, position 10,238–11,367). Phylogram was constructed with MEGA 2 program and tree drawing used the Jukes-Cantor algorithm for genetic distance determination and the neighbor-joining method. The percentage of successful bootstrap replicates (1,000 bootstrap replications, confidence probability >90%) is indicated at the nodes. The length of branches is proportional to the number of nucleotide changes (% of divergence). Asterisk (*) and arrow indicate the strains isolated in this work. The dark triangle corresponds to viruses clustering together. O’nyong-nyong virus (ONNV) sequence has been introduced for correct rooting of the tree. The GenBank reference no. for the Cameroon CHIKV isolate is EF051584.
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