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. 2022 Aug 3;15(1):271.
doi: 10.1186/s13104-022-06153-6.

Re-emergence of mayaro virus and coinfection with chikungunya during an outbreak in the state of Tocantins/Brazil

Robson Dos Santos Souza Marinho  1 , Rodrigo Lopes Sanz Duro  1 , Débora Bellini Caldeira  1 , Juliana Galinskas  1 , Mânlio Tasso Oliveira Mota  1 , James Hunter  1 , Maria da Aparecida Rodrigues Teles  2 , Flávio Augusto de Pádua Milagres  2   3   4 , Ricardo Sobhie Diaz  1 , Fernando Shinji Kawakubo  5 , Shirley Vasconcelos Komninakis  6   7
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Re-emergence of mayaro virus and coinfection with chikungunya during an outbreak in the state of Tocantins/Brazil

Robson Dos Santos Souza Marinho et al. BMC Res Notes. .

Abstract

Objective: To perform a molecular screening to detect infections by the mayaro virus and possible coinfections with Chikungunya during an outbreak in the state of Tocantins/Brazil in 2017.

Results: Of a total 102 samples analyzed in this study, 6 cases were identified with simultaneous infection between mayaro and chikungunya viruses (5.88%). In these 6 samples, the mean Cycle threshold (Ct) for CHIKV was 26.87 (SD ± 10.54) and for MAYV was 29.58 (SD ± 6.34). The mayaro sequences generated showed 95-100% identity to other Brazilian sequences of this virus and with other MAYV isolates obtained from human and arthropods in different regions of the world. The remaining samples were detected with CHIKV monoinfection (41 cases), DENV monoinfection (50 cases) and coinfection between CHIKV/DENV (5 cases). We did not detect MAYV monoinfections.

Keywords: Arbovirus; Brazil; Chikungunya; Coinfection; Mayaro; Molecular screening.

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Conflict of interest statement

The corresponding author affirms, on behalf of all authors, that there are no competing interests related to this study.

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Location of the study area (state of Tocantins/TO) and of the municipalities where the samples were collected (collection points). This map was built using the program QGIS, v. 2.18
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