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 …

Mosquito-Borne Arboviruses Occurrence and Distribution in the Last Three Decades in Central Africa: A Systematic Literature Review

N Poungou, SL Sevidzem, AA Koumba, CRZ Koumba… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Arboviruses represent a real public health problem globally and in the Central African
subregion in particular, which represents a high-risk zone for the emergence and re …

Chikungunya encephalitis: an inconsistently reported headache and cause of death in patients with pre-existing conditions

HK Hopkins, EM Traverse, KL Barr - Current Tropical Medicine Reports, 2022 - Springer
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus of the family Togaviridae with outbreaks
occurring across Africa, Asia, parts of Europe, and South and Central America. There are …

mRNA vaccine designing using chikungunya virus E glycoprotein through immunoinformatics-guided approaches

S Jaan, A Zaman, S Ahmed, M Shah, SC Ojha - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus transmitted by mosquitos that develops into
chikungunya fever and joint pain in humans. This virus' name originated from a Makonde …

Metagenomic Analysis of Togaviridae in Mosquito Viromes Isolated From Yunnan Province in China Reveals Genes from Chikungunya and Ross River Viruses

G Feng, J Zhang, Y Zhang, C Li, D Zhang… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We collected 5,500 mosquitoes belonging to six species in three locations in China. Their
viromes were tested using metagenomic sequencing and bioinformatic analysis. The …

Whole genome sequencing of outbreak strains from 2017 to 2018 reveals an endemic clade of dengue 1 virus in Cameroon

B Agbodzi, FB Sado Yousseu… - Emerging Microbes & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Dengue fever is expanding as a global public health threat including countries within Africa.
For the past few decades, Cameroon has experienced sporadic cases of arboviral infections …

Multiple novel mosquito-borne zoonotic viruses revealed in pangolin virome

D Zhang, M Zheng, Y Zhang, G Feng… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Swab samples were collected from 34 pangolins in Guangxi Province, China. Metavirome
sequencing and bioinformatics approaches were undertaken to determine the abundant …

[HTML][HTML] Metavirome Analysis of Culex tritaeniorhynchus Reveals Novel Japanese Encephalitis Virus and Chikungunya Virus

D Zhang, C Peng, C Li, Y Li, H Zhang, N Li… - Frontiers in Cellular and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
To explore the Culex tritaeniorhynchuses–specific virome, 6400 C. tritaeniorhynchuses were
collected in Honghe autonomous prefecture, China. Abundant virus sequences were …

[HTML][HTML] An amplicon-based Illumina and nanopore sequencing workflow for Chikungunya virus West Africa genotype

I Dieng, M Ndiaye, M Kane, D Balde, M Mbanne… - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Chikungunya virus, a global arbovirus, is currently causing a major outbreak in the
Western African region, with the highest cases reported in Senegal and Burkina Faso …

[HTML][HTML] Increased interregional virus exchange and nucleotide diversity outline the expansion of the chikungunya virus ECSA lineage in Brazil

J Xavier, L Alcantara, V Fonseca, M Lima, E Castro… - medRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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 …