Complete Genome Sequences of Two Chikungunya Viruses Isolated in the Central African Republic in the 1970s and 1980s

Vianney Tricou; Marion Desdouits; Emmanuel Nakouné; Antoine Gessain; Mirdad Kazanji; Nicolas Berthet

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00003-17

Complete Genome Sequences of Two Chikungunya Viruses Isolated in the Central African Republic in the 1970s and 1980s

Genome Announc. 2017 Mar 2;5(9):e00003-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00003-17.

Authors

Vianney Tricou¹, Marion Desdouits², Emmanuel Nakouné², Antoine Gessain^{3

4}, Mirdad Kazanji², Nicolas Berthet^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic vianney.tricou@gmail.com.
² Department of Virology, Institut Pasteur de Bangui, Bangui, Central African Republic.
³ Institut Pasteur, Epidemiology and Physiopathology of Oncogenic Viruses, Paris, France.
⁴ Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 3569, Paris, France.

Abstract

Some arboviruses threaten human global health with potentially explosive emergence. Analysis of whole-genome sequences of decades-old isolates might contribute to the understanding of the complex dynamics which drive their circulation and emergence. Here, we report the whole-genome sequences of two Chikungunya viruses isolated in the Central African Republic in the 1970s and 1980s.