The new Chikungunya virus outbreak in Italy possibly originated from a single introduction from Asia

Eleonora Cella; Elisabetta Riva; Marco Salemi; Silvia Spoto; Serena Vita; Marta Fogolari; Silvia Angeletti; Massimo Ciccozzi

doi:10.1080/20477724.2017.1406565

The new Chikungunya virus outbreak in Italy possibly originated from a single introduction from Asia

Pathog Glob Health. 2018 Mar;112(2):93-95. doi: 10.1080/20477724.2017.1406565. Epub 2017 Nov 28.

Authors

Eleonora Cella^{1

2}, Elisabetta Riva³, Marco Salemi⁴, Silvia Spoto⁵, Serena Vita², Marta Fogolari¹, Silvia Angeletti¹, Massimo Ciccozzi¹

Affiliations

¹ a Unit of Clinical of Laboratory Science , University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome , Rome , Italy.
² b Public Health and Infectious Diseases , Sapienza University , Rome , Italy.
³ c Unit of Virology , University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome , Rome , Italy.
⁴ d Department of Pathology, Immunology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine , University of Florida , Gainesville , FL , USA.
⁵ e Internal Medicine Department , University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome , Rome , Italy.

No abstract available

Keywords: Bayesian phylogeographic analysis; CHIKV, Chikungunya virus; Chikungunya virus (CHIKV); E, envelope; Italian outbreak; MCMC, Markov Chain Monte Carlo; TMRCA, The most recent common ancestor.

MeSH terms

Asia
Chikungunya Fever / epidemiology*
Chikungunya Fever / transmission*
Chikungunya virus / classification*
Chikungunya virus / genetics*
Chikungunya virus / isolation & purification
Cluster Analysis
Disease Outbreaks*
Disease Transmission, Infectious*
Genotype*
Humans
Italy / epidemiology
Molecular Epidemiology
Phylogeny
Sequence Homology