Reemergence of Chikungunya Virus in Cambodia

Abstract

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), probably Asian genotype, was first detected in Cambodia in 1961. Despite no evidence of acute or recent CHIKV infections since 2000, real-time reverse transcription PCR of serum collected in 2011 detected CHIKV, East Central South African genotype. Spatiotemporal patterns and phylogenetic clustering indicate that the virus probably originated in Thailand.

Keywords

• Chikungunya virus
• Cambodia
• genome
• East Central and South African genotype
• Southeast Asia
• viruses