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Epidemiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis of chikungunya fever: Lessons learned from the re-emerging epidemic

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2010
Chikungunya fever, caused by "Chikungunya virus," is an arbovirus disease transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes belonging to the genus Aedes. Chikungunya fever epidemics have been reported from several countries around the world.
Mohan Alladi, Kiran D.H.N, Manohar I, Kumar D   +3 more
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A human genome-wide loss-of-function screen identifies effective chikungunya antiviral drugs

Nature Communications, 2016
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito transmitted untreatable emergent pathogen that causes joint pain and fever. Here the authors perform a host genome-wide loss-of-function screen to identify targets for chikungunya antiviral drugs and validate hits using a ...
Alexander Karlas, Stefano Berre, Thérèse Couderc, Margus Varjak, Peter Braun, Michael Meyer, Nicolas Gangneux, Liis Karo-Astover, Friderike Weege, Martin Raftery, Günther Schönrich, Uwe Klemm, Anne Wurzlbauer, Franz Bracher, Andres Merits, Thomas F. Meyer, Marc Lecuit   +16 more
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Testicular degeneration and infertility following arbovirus infection [PDF]

, 2018
Arboviruses can cause a variety of clinical signs including febrile illness, arthritis, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever. The recent Zika epidemic highlighted the possibility that arboviruses may also negatively affect the male reproductive tract.
Dattena, Maria, Ligios, Ciriaco, Maestrale, Caterina, Manunta, Daniela, Meloni, Giorgio, Melzi, Eleonora, Oggiano, Annalisa, Palmarini, Massimo, Pintus, Davide, Puggioni, Giantonella, Rocchigiani, Angela Maria, Savini, Giovanni   +11 more
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Chikungunya Fever Outbreak, Bhutan, 2012

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013
In 2012, the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) was reported for the first time in Bhutan. IgM ELISA results were positive for 36/210 patient samples; PCR was positive for 32/81. Phylogenetic analyses confirmed that Bhutan CHIKV belongs to the East/Central/South African genotype.
Sonam Wangchuk, Piyawan Chinnawirotpisan, Tandin Dorji, Tashi Tobgay, Tandin Dorji, In‐Kyu Yoon, Stefan Fernandez   +6 more
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Vaccination and transfusion safety at the time of expanding use of live attenuated vaccines

Vox Sanguinis, EarlyView.
Pierre Tiberghien, Pierre Gallian, Virginie de La Taille, Caroline Bacquet, Syria Laperche   +4 more
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Spatial analysis of probable cases of dengue fever, chikungunya fever and zika virus infections in Maranhao State, Brazil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2018
Dengue fever, chikungunya fever, and zika virus infections are increasing public health problems in the world, the last two diseases having recently emerged in Brazil.
Silmery da Silva Brito Costa, Maria dos Remédios Freitas Carvalho Branco, José Aquino Junior, Zulimar Márita Ribeiro Rodrigues, Rejane Christine de Sousa Queiroz, Adriana Soraya Araujo, Ana Patrícia Barros Câmara, Polyana Sousa dos Santos, Emile Danielly Amorim Pereira, Maria do Socorro da Silva, Flávia Regina Vieira da Costa, Amanda Valéria Damasceno dos Santos, Maria Nilza Lima Medeiros, José Odval Alcântara Júnior, Vitor Vieira Vasconcelos, Alcione Miranda dos Santos, Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva   +16 more
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Population genomics of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Insights into the recent worldwide invasion [PDF]

, 2017
Aedes albopictus, the “Asian tiger mosquito,” is an aggressive biting mosquito native to Asia that has colonized all continents except Antarctica during the last ~30–40 years. The species is of great public health
Aguirre-Obando, Alexander, Armbruster, Baird, Becker, Beebe, Benedict, Birungi, Bonizzoni, Brady, Brown, Chen, Chen, Chouin-Carneiro, Dalla Pozza, Damal, Danecek, Das, Delatte, Denlinger, Eaton, Egizi, Emerson, Excoffier, Flacio, Foll, Frichot, Galtier, Gloria-Soria, Goubert, Gratz, Hawley, Hemingway, Hurst, Ismail, Jackson, Jombart, Kambhampati, Kambhampati, Kamgang, Kamgang, Kasai, Lamballerie, Lambrechts, Langmead, Lewis, Li, Lischer, Liu, Lounibos, Lounibos, Lourenco de Oliveira, Luu, Manni, Manni, Marcombe, Maynard, Medley, Medlock, Minard, Morens, Mori, Mousson, Nazareno, O'Donnell, Patterson, Paupy, Pech-May, Peterson, Porretta, Porretta, Powell, Puckett, Reiter, Smartt, Sprenger, Stamatakis, Tatem, Trucchi, Urbanelli, Urbanski, Willing, Wong, Wray, Wu, Xu, Zhong   +86 more
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Seropositivity of chikungunya in hospital setting, India: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Indian Journal of Community Medicine
Backround: Information about the chikungunya disease burden by age groups and geographic distribution is necessary to guide appropriate control measures.
Ramya Nagarajan, Lavanya Ayyasamy, Parasuraman Ganeshkumar, Saravanakumar Velusamy, Manoj Murhekar   +4 more
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Ten years since the last Chikungunya virus outbreak in Italy. History repeats itself [PDF]

, 2017
The prevalence of Arbovirus (arthropod-borne virus) infections is increasing worldwide. Recently, new clusters of autochthonous cases have been reported in countries with temperate climates where the competent vector is present.
Franchini, Massimo, Liumbruno, Giancarlo M., Marano, Giuseppe, Masiello, Francesca, Pati, Ilaria, Pupella, Simonetta, Vaglio, Stefania, Velati, Claudio   +7 more
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Morbilliform skin rash with prominent involvement of the palms in Chikungunya fever

IDCases, 2018
An outbreak of chikungunya occurred in Central Italy in the summer of 2017. During the outbreak, two siblings with fever and joint pain developed a morbilliform skin rash with prominent involvement of the palms.
Maria Laura Tini, Giovanni Rezza
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