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Chikungunya virus nonstructural protein 2 inhibits type I/II interferon-stimulated JAK-STAT signaling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging human pathogen transmitted by mosquitoes. Like that of other alphaviruses, CHIKV replication causes general host shutoff, leading to severe cytopathicity in mammalian cells, and inhibits the ability of infected ...
Ligtenberg, M.   +34 more
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Immunoglobulins as Potential Biomarkers of Chikungunya Encephalitis

open access: yesEmerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
Chikungunya virus causes fever and severe polyarthritis or arthralgia and is associated with neurologic manifestations that are sometimes challenging to diagnose.
Marzia Puccioni-Sohler   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chikungunya virus infection in developing countries - What should we do?

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Veterinary and Animal Research, 2017
Chikungunya fever, a serious global public health problem, is a mosquito-borne disease caused by Chikungunya virus belonging to the family Togaviridae. The virus was first detected in Tanzania in1953.
Md. Tanvir Rahman
doaj   +1 more source

Seroprevalence of Chikungunya Fever at a Tertiary Care Hospital

open access: yesGAIMS Journal of Medical Sciences
Background The Chikungunya (CHIK) is a viral infection caused by CHIK virus which is an arbovirus that belongs to the genus alphavirus under the Togaviridae family.
Gaurav Chotaliya   +3 more
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Waiting for chikungunya fever in Argentina: spatio-temporal risk maps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) transmission has been detected in America in 2013 and recently reached south up to Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay, bordering countries of Argentina.
Darío Vezzani   +4 more
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CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER: THE RESURGENCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PATTERN IN WESTERN INDIA

open access: yesNational Journal of Medical Research, 2013
Background: After a lapse of 30 years Chikungunya fever has re-emerged with involving millions of people leaving a number of them with significant morbidity and hampering their day to day activities and affecting the life of millions related to them ...
Sonia Barve   +2 more
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New methods for the assessment and prediction of vector-borne infectious diseases

open access: yesJournal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
This study, which demonstrates that the single-population Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model is also applicable to the assessment and prediction of vector-borne infectious disease outbreaks, provides a reliable model tool for the ...
Senzhong Huang   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Encephalitis associated with the chikungunya epidemic outbreak in Brazil: report of 2 cases with neuroimaging findings

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Chikungunya, an alphavirus infection presenting with fever, rash, and polyarthritis, is most often an acute febrile illness. Neurologic complications of chikungunya infection have been reported.
Licia Pacheco Pereira   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of Chikungunya fever outbreak in Western Jamaica during July–December 2014

open access: yes, 2017
Phuong N Pham,1 LaQueena T Williams,1 Uduak Obot,1 Luz A Padilla,1 Maung Aung,2 Tomi F Akinyemiju,1 April P Carson,1 Pauline E Jolly1 1Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; 2Epidemiology Unit, Western ...
Obot U   +7 more
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