Detection of a chikungunya outbreak in Central Italy, August to September 2017

An autochthonous chikungunya outbreak is ongoing near Anzio, a coastal town in the province of Rome. The virus isolated from one patient and mosquitoes lacks the A226V mutation and belongs to an East Central South African strain. As of 20 September, 86 cases are laboratory-confirmed. The outbreak pr...

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Published in:Euro Surveill
Main Authors: Venturi, Giulietta, Di Luca, Marco, Fortuna, Claudia, Remoli, Maria Elena, Riccardo, Flavia, Severini, Francesco, Toma, Luciano, Del Manso, Martina, Benedetti, Eleonora, Caporali, Maria Grazia, Amendola, Antonello, Fiorentini, Cristiano, De Liberato, Claudio, Giammattei, Roberto, Romi, Roberto, Pezzotti, Patrizio, Rezza, Giovanni, Rizzo, Caterina
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Language:Inglês
Published: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2017
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Rapid Communication
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709953/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29019306
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2017.22.39.17-00646
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