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Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2014 Chikungunya is a rapidly emerging infectious disease caused by a virus of the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae. Most commonly, patients have an acute onset of fever with often debilitating symmetric joint discomfort that can relapse months after the initial infection.
Derek R, MacFadden, Isaac I, Bogoch
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Chikungunya and the Heart [PDF]
Cardiology, 2021 <b><i>Introduction:</i></b> Neglected tropical diseases are a group of communicable diseases that occur in tropical and subtropical conditions and are closely related to poverty and inadequate sanitation conditions. Among these entities, chikungunya remains one of the most widely spread diseases.
Juan I. Cotella +10 more
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Clinical Case Reports, 2021 Abstract Chikungunya although rare should be considered in any neonate presenting with fever and facial hyperpigmentation or encephalopathy especially in endemic areas.
Vishal Gupta +2 more
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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2023 Chikungunya virus is widespread throughout the tropics, where it causes recurrent outbreaks of chikungunya fever. In recent years, outbreaks have afflicted populations in East and Central Africa, South America and Southeast Asia. The virus is transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
Koen Bartholomeeusen +7 more
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Clinical Medicine, 2019 The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection epidemic has emerged as a significant public health concern in the last 10-15 years, especially in Asian and south American countries. However, with ever-expanding tourism and migration, cases have now been reported in north America and Europe.
Himanshu, Pathak +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 Chebulinic acid (CA), originally isolated from the flower extract of the plant Terminalia chebula, has been shown to inhibit infection of herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), suggestively by inhibiting the host entry step of viral infection.
Naiju Thomas +7 more
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2019 Background Dengue infections have become a huge threat to public health systems in developing countries. Data on seroprevalence and incidence of dengue infections are lacking from rural regions of India.
Paresh S. Shah +8 more
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International Journal of Pediatrics, 2021 Objectives. Chikungunya and scrub typhus infection are important causes of undifferentiated fever in tropical zones. The clinical manifestations in both conditions are nonspecific and often overlap. This study compares the clinical manifestations and the
Santosh Pathak +5 more
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Chikungunya: epidemiology [PDF]
F1000Research, 2016 Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that causes fever and debilitating joint pains in humans. Joint pains may last months or years. It is vectored primarily by the tropical and sub-tropical mosquito, Aedes aegypti , but is also found to be transmitted by Aedes
Petersen, Lyle R., Powers, Ann M.
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Seroepidemiological Survey of Chikungunya in and Around the Regions of Bijapur (Vijayapura - North Karnataka) [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015 Background: Chikungunya is a debilitating, non-fatal, mosquito borne viral fever caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIVA). The disease is transmitted to humans by the bite of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
Bharath Mudurangaplar +1 more
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