Complete Coding Sequences of 22 East/Central/South African Genotype Chikungunya Virus Isolates from Thailand (2018 to 2019)

Piyawan Chinnawirotpisan; Sarunyou Chusri; Wudtichai Manasatienkij; Khajohn Joonlasak; Angkana T Huang; Yongyuth Poolpanichupatam; Jindarat Lohachanakul; Kamonthip Rungrojcharoenkit; Butsaya Thaisomboonsuk; Darunee Buddhari; Kathryn B Anderson; Sriluck Simasatien; Detchvijitr Suwanpakdee; Veerachai Watanaveeradej; Pra-On Supadish; Piyarat Suntarattiwong; Anthony R Jones; Stefan Fernandez; Chonticha Klungthong

doi:10.1128/MRA.00438-20

Complete Coding Sequences of 22 East/Central/South African Genotype Chikungunya Virus Isolates from Thailand (2018 to 2019)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 15;9(42):e00438-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00438-20.

Authors

Piyawan Chinnawirotpisan¹, Sarunyou Chusri², Wudtichai Manasatienkij³, Khajohn Joonlasak³, Angkana T Huang³, Yongyuth Poolpanichupatam³, Jindarat Lohachanakul³, Kamonthip Rungrojcharoenkit³, Butsaya Thaisomboonsuk³, Darunee Buddhari³, Kathryn B Anderson^{3

4}, Sriluck Simasatien⁵, Detchvijitr Suwanpakdee⁵, Veerachai Watanaveeradej⁵, Pra-On Supadish⁶, Piyarat Suntarattiwong⁶, Anthony R Jones³, Stefan Fernandez³, Chonticha Klungthong³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Virology, U.S. Army Medical Directorate-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand piyawanc.fsn@afrims.org.
² Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkhla University, Songkhla, Thailand.
³ Department of Virology, U.S. Army Medical Directorate-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Bangkok, Thailand.

Abstract

The coding-complete genome sequences of 22 chikungunya virus strains collected from the 2018-2019 outbreak in Thailand are reported. All sequences belong to the East/Central/South African (ECSA) genotype and contain two mutations, E1:K211E and E2:V264A, which were previously shown to be associated with increased viral infectivity, dissemination, and transmission in Aedes aegypti.