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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.
Ramani, K. V., Mavalankar, Dileep, Parmar Jeram, Shastri Priya   +3 more
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Chikungunya Virus Infection and Acute Elevation of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen

Case Reports in Urology, 2015
A man with prostate cancer on a regime of active surveillance had a laboratory-confirmed acute Chikungunya virus infection. The patient experienced a sudden increase in serum Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) during the acute illness that caused him ...
William Derval Aiken, Joshua J. Anzinger
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Chikungunya Fever from Malaysia

Internal Medicine, 2010
An adult Malaysian woman returned to Japan from Kuala Lumpur and had onset of dengue fever-like symptoms including high fever, malaise and arthritis in early January 2009. Serum obtained on the following day was tested at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in Tokyo, where it was determined to be positive for chikungunya virus (CHIKV) RNA ...
Yamamoto, Kouta, Matumoto, Kentaro, Lim, Chang-Kweng, Moi, Meng Ling, Kotaki, Akira, Takasaki, Tomohiko   +5 more
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Chikungunya fever in Africa: a systematic review

Pathogens and Global Health, 2020
Since the identification of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), sporadic cases and outbreaks were reported in several African countries, on the Indian subcontinent, and in south-east Asia. In the last 20 years, there is a growing number of reports of CHIKV infections from African countries, but the overall picture of its circulation at the continent level ...
Gianluca Russo, Lorenzo Subissi, Giovanni Rezza   +2 more
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α‐Glucosidase and Acetylcholinesterase (AChE) Inhibitory Activities, Larvicidal Potential and GC–MS Analysis of Endlicheria paniculata: A Combined Experimental and Molecular Docking Study

Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 23, Issue 10, October 2026.
This study investigates the essential oil composition of E. paniculata wood, bark, and leaves by GC–MS. Biological evaluations of the leaf essential oil reveal promising larvicidal potential against Aedes aegypti and in vitro inhibitory activities against α‐glucosidase and acetylcholinesterase (AChE), supported by molecular docking simulations ...
Jenifer Priscila de Araujo, Luiz Everson Da Silva, Wanderlei do Amaral, Michele Debiasi Alberton, Ana Helena Loos Moritz, Fernando Cesar Martins Betim, Deise Prehs Montrucchio, Marilis Dallarmi Miguel, Josiane de Fátima Gaspari Dias, Hélcio Silva Dos Santos, Emmanuel Silva Marinho, Márcia Machado Marinho, Jacilene Silva, Obdulio Gomes Miguel   +13 more
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Clinical complications of Chikungunya fever in Mauritius [PDF]

, 2009
Chikungunya fever, an emerging mosquito-borne viral disease,has affected Mauritius with two recent outbreaks in 2005 and 2006respectively. A study was carried out in 2007 to describe the clinicalcomplications post-Chikungunya infection. Ethical clearance
Caussy, BS, Cheeneebash, J, SSD Goorah, AB Ghamy, BS Caussy, Ramchurn, SK, Goorah, SSD, J Cheeneebash, Ghamy, AB, SK Ramchurn   +9 more
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Clinical Progression, Viral Load Dynamics, and Immune Kinetics of Nipah Virus Infection: Nipah Virus Kinetics Study Protocol

Current Protocols, Volume 6, Issue 10, October 2026.
Abstract Background: Nipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic pathogen with pandemic potential. Understanding the immune response to this pathogen is important for developing vaccines and therapeutics. This study aims to characterize viral load, host immune kinetics, and biomarker progression throughout NiV infection.
Anika Farzin, Shadman Sakib Choudhury, Wasik Rahman Aquib, Sharmin Sultana, Mintu Chowdhury, Faruq Abdulla, Arifa Nazneen, Kamal Ibne Amin Chowdhury, Tonmoy Sarkar, Dewan Imtiaz Rahman, Mohammad Mamun Alam, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman, Ayesha Siddika, Tahsin Tabassum Anonto, Sinthia Karim, Md. Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan, Christina F. Spiropoulou, Michael K. Lo, Trevor Shoemaker, Mohammed Ziaur Rahman, Sayera Banu, Tahmina Shirin, Firdausi Qadri, Joel M. Montgomery, Syed Moinuddin Satter   +24 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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Chikungunya Epidemic Mortality in India: Lessons from 17th Century Bills of Mortality Still Relevant [PDF]

Chikungunya is a virus spread by the bite of the Aedes mosquito, which recently reemerged as a massive epidemic in the Indian Ocean islands and India. Chikungunya is generally considered self-limiting and has been reported as non-fatal but, since March ...
Ramani, K. V., Mavalankar, Dileep, Shastri Priya   +2 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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