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Beyond the Kidney and Lung: Cutaneous and Mucosal Clues to Human Hantavirus Disease
International Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.Rodent exposure and aerosolized excreta can lead to hantavirus infection with systemic endothelial injury and capillary leak, resulting in thrombocytopenia and syndromes such as HPS/HCPS and HFRS/NE. Early dermatologic and mucosal findings, including flushing, conjunctival injection, petechiae/purpura, and mucosal bleeding, may provide important clues ...
Giuseppe Gallo +2 more
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A case of bilateral presumed chikungunya neuroretinitis
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2009 Chikungunya fever is a relatively rare from of vector-borne viral fever caused by chikungunya virus and spread by bites of the Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquito.
Mahesh G +4 more
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Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, 2018 A 66-year-old male patient presented with decreased vision in both eyes following episode of Chikungunya fever. Examination revealed bilateral retinal lesions with stippled pigmentary changes at the level of the choriocapillaris, involving the macula in ...
Aniruddha Agarwal +2 more
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Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.Aedes aegypti females were significantly repelled by both volatile DEET and citronella oil in comparison to control (ethanol‐exposed) mosquitoes. Global gene expression changes were largest in the mosquito mouthparts, with notable downregulation of the three subunits comprising the mosquito CO2 receptor (Gr1, 2 and 3).
Ivan Drahun +3 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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Overlap between dengue, Zika and chikungunya hotspots in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
PLoS ONE, 2022 BackgroundArboviruses represent a threat to global public health. In the Americas, the dengue fever is endemic. This situation worsens with the introduction of emerging, Zika fever and chikungunya fever, causing epidemics in several countries within the ...
Eny Regina da Silva Queiroz +1 more
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Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.The principal arboviral vector Aedes aegypti can develop in coastal brackish water field habitats (0.5–15 g/L salt) with larvae possessing thicker cuticles and greater resistance to the larvicide Temephos. Females emerging from brackish water‐developing preimaginal stages are now shown to have thicker and remodelled leg and abdominal cuticles and ...
Kokila Sivabalakrishnan +6 more
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Burden of Dengue and Chikungunya – A Retrospective Study
Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2021 Arboviral infections like dengue fever and chikungunya are the most common infections that share the same Aedes mosquito vectors. Clinical presentations of these two infections are also similar, especially in initial stages.
J.V. Sathish +3 more
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus that causes an acute febrile illness with intense muscle and joint pain, with the possibility of progressing to a chronic or neurological stage. We conducted a systematic review and meta‐analysis with the aim of evaluating the accuracy of real‐time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain ...
Róger J. Costa +8 more
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Parsonage-Turner syndrome following chikungunya virus infection: A case report
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2019 Rationale: Parsonage-Turner syndrome is a rare syndrome of unknown etiology, affecting mainly the lower motor neurons of the brachial plexus.
Luis Arthur Brasil Gadelha Farias +4 more
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