A change in circulating chikungunya virus variant impacts Aedes aegypti vector competence and spatiotemporal distribution of disease in Malaysia

• Izzati Kausar Azman,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Yoke Fun Chan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Chong Long Chua,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Zainal Abidin Abd Mutalib,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Population and Demographic Statistics Division, Department of Statistics, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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• Sarat Chandra Dass,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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• Balvinder Singh Gill,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Medical Research, National Institutes of Health, Shah Alam, Malaysia

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• Nor Hayati Ismail,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Molecular Unit, Public Health Laboratory Kota Bharu, Kota Bharu, Malaysia

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• Jenarun Jelip,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Section, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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• Ming Keong Wan,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vector-Borne Disease Section, Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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• Wenn-Chyau Lee,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

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• Indra Vythilingam,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Luke Alphey,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biology, University of York, York, United Kingdom, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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• I-Ching Sam

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jicsam@ummc.edu.my

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1296-7898

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