The 2018-20 chikungunya outbreak in Thailand, which infected over 15,000 people, likely resulted from the importation of the CHIKV strain from South Asia.
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Article Title: "Large-scale outbreak of chikungunya virus infection in Thailand, 2018-2019"
Funding: This work was supported by the Research Chair Grant from the National Science and Technology Development Agency (P-15-50004), the Center of Excellence in Clinical Virology of Chulalongkorn University and Hospital. SK is supported by Second Century Fund (C2F), Chulalongkorn University. The funding agencies had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Competing Interests: NO authors have competing interests.
Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247314
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