Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Dispatch
Detection of East/Central/South African Genotype of Chikungunya Virus in Myanmar, 2010
Mya Myat Ngwe Tun, Kyaw Zin Thant, Shingo Inoue, Takeshi Nabeshima, Kotaro Aoki, Aung Kyaw Kyaw, Tin Myint, Thi Tar, Kay Thwe Thwe Maung, Daisuke Hayasaka, and Kouichi Morita
Table 2
Characteristics of and testing results for 4 patients who had suspected dengue virus infection and from whom chikungunya virus was isolated, Myanmar2010*
| Patient no. | Age, y | Days from illness onset to blood extraction* | Diagnosis at admission | CHIKV |
DENV |
Flavivirus IgG | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IgM | IgG | RT-PCR | IgM | RT-PCR | ||||||
| 7 | 6.5 | 1 | DHF I | Neg | Neg | Pos | Pos | Neg | Pos | |
| 20 | 11 | 2 | DHF II | Neg | Neg | Pos | Neg | Neg | Neg | |
| 30 | 6 | 4 | DF | Neg | Neg | Pos | Neg | Neg | Neg | |
| 105 | 7 | 3 | DHF II | Neg | Neg | Pos | Neg | Neg | Pos | |
*DHF grades I and II classified according to World Health Organization criteria, 1997. CHIKV, chikungunya virus; DENV, dengue virus; RT-PCR, reverse transcription PCR; DHF, dengue hemorrhagic fever; Pos, positive; Neg, Negative; DF, dengue fever.
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