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Human behaviors: a threat for mosquito control?
, 2015 Community involvement and the preventive behavior of households are considered to be at the heart of vector-control strategies. In this work, we consider a simple theoretical model that enables us to take into account human behaviors that may interfere ...
Dumont, Y., Thuilliez, J.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006 To the Editor: Chikungunya virus disease, caused by a mosquitoborne alphavirus, is endemic to Africa and Southeast Asia. It typically causes an acute febrile illness, with joint pain and a skin rash. Chronic arthropathy may develop (1,2). No treatment or vaccine is available, and relatively little research has been conducted into its pathogenesis ...
Nelson Lee +9 more
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Revista Brasileira de ReumatologiaChikungunya fever has become an important public health problem in countries where epidemics occur because half of the cases progress to chronic, persistent and debilitating arthritis.
Claudia Diniz Lopes Marques +35 more
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Chikungunya virus infection in developing countries - What should we do?
Journal 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
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Immunoglobulins as Potential Biomarkers of Chikungunya Encephalitis
Emerging 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
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Chikungunya Fever: A Killer Epidemic in Ahmedabad City, India [PDF]
Background The Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus native to tropical Africa and Asia and is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes.
Mavalankar, Dileep +3 more
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Modeling the transmission of Wolbachia in mosquitoes for controlling mosquito-borne diseases
, 2017 We develop and analyze an ordinary differential equation model to assess the potential effectiveness of infecting mosquitoes with the Wolbachia bacteria to control the ongoing mosquito-borne epidemics, such as dengue fever, chikungunya, and Zika ...
Hyman, James M., Qu, Zhuolin, Xue, Ling
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Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 2008 Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 2007;36: 3-5Key words: Chikungunya fever, Sri LankaDOI = 10.4038/sljch.v36i1 ...
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Chikungunya fever – A new global threat
Medicina Clínica (English Edition), 2015 The recent onset of epidemics caused by viruses such as Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Lassa, coronavirus, West-Nile encephalitis, Saint Louis encephalitis, human immunodeficiency virus, dengue, yellow fever and Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever alerts about the risk these agents represent for the global health. Chikungunya virus represents a new threat.
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Chikungunya fever: rheumatological aspects
Modern Rheumatology Journal, 2018 Chikungunya fever (CF) is a feral nidal viral disease with the mechanism of transmission by Aedes mosquitoes. All increasing migration flows have carried brought the infection to new regions and, consequently, expanded the disease area, including European countries.
В. S. Belov +2 more
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