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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, Luiz Claudio Farias, Mauro Jorge Cabral-Castro, Mariano G. Zalis, Rosangela S. Kalil, Maria Cecília F. Salgado   +5 more
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Shooting the messenger: Ecosystem approaches in haematology

HemaSphere, Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2026.
Stephen P. Hibbs
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Seroprevalence of Chikungunya Fever at a Tertiary Care Hospital

GAIMS Journal of Medical Sciences
Background 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, Rashmika Parmar, Hiral M Gadhavi, Hitesh Shingala   +3 more
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CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER: THE RESURGENCE AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PATTERN IN WESTERN INDIA

National Journal of Medical Research, 2013
Background: After a lapse of 30 years Chikungunya fever has re-emerged with involving millions of people leaving a number of them with significant morbidity and hampering their day to day activities and affecting the life of millions related to them ...
Sonia Barve, Sandeep Nanda, Tanuja B Javadekar   +2 more
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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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Encephalitis associated with the chikungunya epidemic outbreak in Brazil: report of 2 cases with neuroimaging findings

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Chikungunya, an alphavirus infection presenting with fever, rash, and polyarthritis, is most often an acute febrile illness. Neurologic complications of chikungunya infection have been reported.
Licia Pacheco Pereira, Rafaela Villas-Bôas, Stephanie Suzanne de Oliveira Scott, Paulo Ribeiro Nóbrega, Manoel Alves Sobreira-Neto, José Daniel Vieira de Castro, Bruno Cavalcante, Pedro Braga-Neto   +7 more
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New methods for the assessment and prediction of vector-borne infectious diseases

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity
This study, which demonstrates that the single-population Susceptible-Exposed-Infectious-Recovered (SEIR) model is also applicable to the assessment and prediction of vector-borne infectious disease outbreaks, provides a reliable model tool for the ...
Senzhong Huang, Xinyan Zhang, Xi Chen, Fengying Wei, Jianguo Xu, Yao Bai, Zhen Jin, Qiyong Liu, Yamin Sun, Jinjie Wang, Zhaojun Wang, Jun Xu, Xianming Xu, Lei Xu   +13 more
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Chikungunya fever - epidemic in rural Maharashtra

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2009
Sir, Chikungunya fever, an arboviral infection, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito is caused by the chikungunya virus of family Togaviridae and genus Alphavirus. The illness can be severe, but it is self-limiting and nonfatal. We conducted a cross-sectional study in the epidemic-affected Shrirampur town.
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Hyperpigmentation and chikungunya fever [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2016
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