TY - JOUR AU - Peyrefitte, Christophe N. AU - Rousset, Dominique AU - Pastorino, Boris A.M. AU - Pouillot, Regis AU - Bessaud, Maƫl AU - Tock, Fabienne AU - Mansaray, Helene AU - Merle, Olivier L. AU - Pascual, Aurelie M. AU - Paupy, Christophe AU - Vessiere, Aurelia AU - Imbert, Patrice AU - Tchendjou, Patrice AU - Durand, Jean-Paul AU - Tolou, Hugues J. AU - Grandadam, Marc T1 - Chikungunya Virus, Cameroon, 2006 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2007 VL - 13 IS - 5 SP - 768 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We report the isolation of chikungunya virus from a patient during an outbreak of a denguelike syndrome in Cameroon in 2006. The virus was phylogenetically grouped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cluster, indicating a continuous circulation of a genetically similar chikungunya virus population during 6 years in Central Africa. KW - Chikungunya virus KW - alphavirus KW - Dengue viruses KW - arbovirus KW - Cameroon KW - dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1305.061500 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/13/5/06-1500_article ER - End of Reference