Emerging Infectious Diseases (Jan 2018)

Molecular Characterization of Autochthonous Chikungunya Cluster in Latium Region, Italy

  • Licia Bordi,
  • Fabrizio Carletti,
  • Eleonora Lalle,
  • Francesca Colavita,
  • Silvia Meschi,
  • Antonino Di Caro,
  • Emanuele Nicastri,
  • Paola Scognamiglio,
  • Francesco Vairo,
  • Domenico Di Lallo,
  • Vincenzo Panella,
  • Maria R. Capobianchi,
  • Giuseppe Ippolito,
  • Concetta Castilletti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2401.171605
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 24, no. 1
pp. 178 – 180

Abstract

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We report partial molecular characterization of isolates from an autochthonous chikungunya virus cluster in the Latium Region of Italy. E1 sequences from 3 patients differ substantially from sequences from the 2007 outbreak in Italy and lack the A226V substitution associated with increased viral fitness in the Aedes albopictus mosquito vector.

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