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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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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 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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Chikungunya Fever, Hong Kong

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, Chun K. Wong, Wai Y. Lam, Ann Wong, Wilina Lim, Christopher W.K. Lam, Clive S. Cockram, Joseph J.Y. Sung, Paul K.S. Chan, Julian W. Tang   +9 more
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Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the diagnosis and treatment of chikungunya fever. Part 2 - Treatment

Revista Brasileira de Reumatologia
Chikungunya 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, Angela Luzia Branco Pinto Duarte, Aline Ranzolin, Andrea Tavares Dantas, Nara Gualberto Cavalcanti, Rafaela Silva Guimarães Gonçalves, Laurindo Ferreira da Rocha Junior, Lilian David de Azevedo Valadares, Ana Karla Guedes de Melo, Eutilia Andrade Medeiros Freire, Roberto Teixeira, Francisco Alves Bezerra Neto, Marta Maria das Chagas Medeiros, Jozélio Freire de Carvalho, Mario Sergio F. Santos, Regina Adalva de L. Couto Océa, Roger A. Levy, Carlos Augusto Ferreira de Andrade, Geraldo da Rocha Castelar Pinheiro, Mirhelen Mendes Abreu, José Fernando Verztman, Selma Merenlender, Sandra Lucia Euzebio Ribeiro, Izaias Pereira da Costa, Gecilmara Pileggi, Virginia Fernandes Moça Trevisani, Max Igor Banks Lopes, Carlos Brito, Eduardo Figueiredo, Fabio Queiroga, Tiago Feitosa, Angélica da Silva Tenório, Gisela Rocha de Siqueira, Renata Paiva, José Tupinambá Sousa Vasconcelos, Georges Christopoulos   +35 more
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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, Luiz Claudio Farias, Mauro Jorge Cabral-Castro, Mariano G. Zalis, Rosangela S. Kalil, Maria Cecília F. Salgado   +5 more
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Emergence of chikungunya fever on the French side of Saint Martin island, October to December 2013 [PDF]

, 2014
Sylvie Cassadou, S Boucau, Marion Petit-Sinturel, Patricia Huc, Isabelle Leparc-Goffart, Martine Ledrans   +5 more
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Spatial diffusion of Zika fever epidemics in the Municipality of Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, in 2015-2016: does Zika fever have the same spread pattern as Dengue and Chikungunya fever epidemics? [PDF]

, 2020
Laís Santos Santana, José Ueleres Braga   +1 more
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Chikungunya fever

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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