Genome Sequences of Chikungunya Virus Isolates from Bolivia

Caio M B França; Roxana Loayza; Yelin Roca; Ana Maria Montaño Arias; Freddy Tinajeros; Jose R Loaiza; Anshule Takyar; Robert H Gilman; Matthew J Miller

doi:10.1128/MRA.00230-20

Genome Sequences of Chikungunya Virus Isolates from Bolivia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Apr 16;9(16):e00230-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00230-20.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma, USA.
² U.F. Biología Molecular, Centro Nacional de Enfermedades Tropicales (CENETROP), Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
³ Asociación Benéfica PRISMA, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
⁴ Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas y Servicios de Alta Tecnología (INDICASAT AIP), City of Knowledge, Panama City, Republic of Panama.
⁵ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama.
⁶ Programa Centroamericano de Maestría en Entomología, Universidad de Panamá, Panama City, Republic of Panama.
⁷ Department of Public Health and Department of Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
⁸ Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁹ Sam Noble Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, USA mjmiller@ou.edu.

Abstract

We generated nine coding-complete chikungunya virus genome sequences from blood samples collected during the early 2015 outbreak in Bolivia. Relative to other publicly available chikungunya sequences, the Bolivian samples represent a monophyletic group, suggesting that a single lineage was widely circulating in the country between February and May 2015.

Grants and funding

D43 TW010074/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States