Chikungunya Fever Outbreak, Zhejiang Province, China, 2017

Chikungunya Fever Outbreak, Zhejiang Province, China, 2017

We report a disease outbreak caused by chikungunya virus in Zhejiang Province, China, in August 2017. Phylogenic analysis indicated that this virus belonged to the Indian Ocean clade of the East/Central/South African genotype and was imported by a traveler returning from Bangladesh.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Junhang Pan, Chunfu Fang, Juying Yan, Hao Yan, Bingdong Zhan, Yi Sun, Ying Liu, Haiyan Mao, Guoping Cao, Lei Lv, Enfu Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2019-08-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
chikungunya
outbreak
China
viruses
chikungunya virus
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/8/18-1212_article

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