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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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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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Emergence of chikungunya fever on the French side of Saint Martin island, October to December 2013 [PDF]
, 2014 Sylvie Cassadou +5 more
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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 and pregnancy
Chikungunya fever, an acute infectious disease caused by the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), is transmitted mainly by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito. The epidemic spread from Africa to southern Asia and the islands of the Indian Ocean, and it is known to have been introduced to the American continent by 2013. In its epidemiological alert of February
Paulino Vigil‐De Gracia
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Clinical profile of dengue fever and coinfection with chikungunya
Tzu Chi Medical Journal, 2018 Objective: Arthropod-borne viral diseases are a major burden on the health-care system worldwide. Only a few studies have reported on coinfection of dengue fever (DF) with the chikungunya virus in North India.
Jitendra Singh +5 more
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Chikungunya fever: current status in Mexico
Boletín Médico Del Hospital Infantil de México (English Edition), 2016 Chikungunya fever is a tropical vector-borne disease that has been spreading rapidly around the world during the last 10 years, and which has been usually misdiagnosed as dengue. Nowadays, this disease is increasing in Mexico, mainly in the southern and central zones of the country, being significantly more common in women, children and young adults ...
Margarita Nava-Frías +3 more
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Seroprevalence of Chikungunya Fever at a Tertiary Care Hospital
GAIMS Journal of Medical SciencesBackground The Chikungunya (CHIK) is a viral infection caused by CHIK virus which is an arbovirus that belongs to the genus alphavirus under the Togaviridae family.
Gaurav Chotaliya +3 more
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