Document Type
Article
Department
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Abstract
In December 2016 physicians in Karachi, Pakistan,witnessed an increase in patients presenting with febrile illness and severe polyarthralgia. Subsequently, chikungunya virus (CHIKV)) was isolated from three patients. This virus was sequenced and compared with other isolates of CHIKV obtained in India and Pakistan during recent outbreaks. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that the Karachi isolates were most similar to the East Central South African CHIKV lineage and showed sequence homology to isolates obtained in other parts of Pakistan and India. More importantly, two of the CHIKV isolates had a nucleotide substitution in the E1 gene corresponding to an amino acid change at chain F portion of the E1 protein.
Publication (Name of Journal)
JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
Recommended Citation
Prakoso, D.,
Barr, K.,
Imtiaz, K.,
Farooqi, J.,
Khan, E.,
Long, M.
(2021). Chikungunya outbreak in Karachi Pakistan 2016-2017: An analysis of viral isolates. JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 71(5), 1467-1471.
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https://ecommons.aku.edu/pakistan_fhs_mc_pathol_microbiol/1336