Increased interregional virus exchange and nucleotide diversity outline the expansion of chikungunya virus in Brazil

J Xavier, LCJ Alcantara, V Fonseca, M Lima… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence and reemergence of mosquito-borne diseases in Brazil such as yellow
fever, zika, chikungunya, and dengue have had serious impacts on public health. Concerns …

Islands as hotspots for emerging mosquito-borne viruses: a one-health perspective

C Mavian, M Dulcey, O Munoz, M Salemi, AY Vittor… - Viruses, 2018 - mdpi.com
During the past ten years, an increasing number of arbovirus outbreaks have affected
tropical islands worldwide. We examined the available literature in peer-reviewed journals …

GloPID-R report on chikungunya, o'nyong-nyong and Mayaro virus, part 5: Entomological aspects

L Pezzi, M Diallo, MG Rosa-Freitas, A Vega-Rua… - Antiviral research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The GloPID-R (Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease
Preparedness) chikungunya (CHIKV), o'nyong-nyong (ONNV) and Mayaro virus (MAYV) …

Genomic, epidemiological and digital surveillance of Chikungunya virus in the Brazilian Amazon

FG Naveca, I Claro, M Giovanetti… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Since its first detection in the Caribbean in late 2013, chikungunya virus
(CHIKV) has affected 51 countries in the Americas. The CHIKV epidemic in the Americas …

Updated phylogeny of chikungunya virus suggests lineage-specific RNA architecture

A de Bernardi Schneider, R Ochsenreiter, R Hostager… - Viruses, 2019 - mdpi.com
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of the family Togaviridae, has
recently emerged in the Americas from lineages from two continents: Asia and Africa …

RNA recombination at Chikungunya virus 3'UTR as an evolutionary mechanism that provides adaptability

CV Filomatori, ES Bardossy, F Merwaiss… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The potential of RNA viruses to adapt to new environments relies on their ability to introduce
changes in their genomes, which has resulted in the recent expansion of re-emergent …

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

FRR Moreira, MT Menezes… - PLoS neglected …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Since 2014, Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic caused by chikungunya
virus (CHIKV), with several waves of East-Central-South-African (ECSA) lineage …

Emergence of Madariaga virus as a cause of acute febrile illness in children, Haiti, 2015-2016

JA Lednicky, SK White, CN Mavian… - PLoS Neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Madariaga virus (MADV), also known as South American eastern equine encephalitis virus,
has been identified in animals and humans in South and Central America, but not previously …

Clinical and epidemiologic patterns of chikungunya virus infection and coincident arboviral disease in a school cohort in Haiti, 2014–2015

JD Ball, MA Elbadry, T Telisma, SK White… - Clinical Infectious …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Beginning in December 2013, an epidemic of chikungunya virus
(CHIKV) infection spread across the Caribbean and into virtually all countries in the Western …

Genome sequencing reveals coinfection by multiple chikungunya virus genotypes in a recent outbreak in Brazil

LC Machado, MC de Morais-Sobral… - PLoS Neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an RNA virus from the Togaviridae family transmitted by
mosquitoes in both sylvatic and urban cycles. In humans, CHIKV infection leads to a febrile …