Genomics|Features|Chikungunya

Genomics|Features|Chikungunya

Chikungunya

Chikungunya: Recent Genomics and Public Health Insights - January 8, 2015

Chikungunya: Establishing a new home in the western hemisphere.
Davidson H. Hamer et al. Annals of Internal Medicine, December 2014

While Americans watched for Ebola in 2014, another painful virus slipped into the U.S. and it's just getting started, NPR News, Jan 1, 2015

Next generation sequencing reveals regulation of distinct Aedes microRNAs during chikungunya virus development.
Shrinet J, et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Jan 9;8(1):e2616

Comprehensive proteomic analysis of white blood cells from chikungunya fever patients of different severities.
Wikan N, et al. J Transl Med. 2014 Apr 11;12:96.

Multiple immune factors are involved in controlling acute and chronic chikungunya virus infection
Poo YS, et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014 Dec 4;8(12):e3354

Chikungunya: Genomics and Public Health - August 21, 2014

CDC information on chikungunya virus & its transmission

CDC notes from the field: chikungunya virus spreads in the Americas — Caribbean and South America, 2013–2014. MMWR 2014. 63(22);500-501.

US assesses virus of the Caribbean. Researchers warn that a change of mosquito host could accelerate spread of chikungunya across the Americas, Aleszu Bajak, Nature News, Aug 12

Comparative analysis of the genome sequences and replication profiles of chikungunya virus isolates within the East, Central and South African (ECSA) lineage.
Karen Caiyun Chen et al. Virology Journal (2013)

Complete genome sequence of a chikungunya virus isolated in Guangdong, China.
Xiao-Feng Li et al. Journal of Virology (2012)

Gene x Gene x Environment: Chikungunya virus is transmitted through a three-way interaction that hinges on viral strain, mosquito genotype, and ambient temperature, researchers have found, by Sandhya Sekar, The Scientist, Aug 12