Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Dec;18(12):2066-9. doi: 10.3201/eid1812.120471.
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), probably Asian genotype, was first detected in Cambodia in 1961. Despite no evidence of acute or recent CHIKV infections since 2000, real-time reverse transcription PCR of serum collected in 2011 detected CHIKV, East Central South African genotype. Spatiotemporal patterns and phylogenetic clustering indicate that the virus probably originated in Thailand.
基孔肯雅病毒(CHIKV)可能是亚洲基因型,于 1961 年首次在柬埔寨被发现。尽管自 2000 年以来没有急性或近期 CHIKV 感染的证据,但对 2011 年采集的血清进行实时逆转录聚合酶链反应检测到了东中非南非基因型的 CHIKV。时空模式和系统发育聚类表明,该病毒可能起源于泰国。