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Chikungunya Virus, Cameroon, 2006
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2007 We report the isolation of chikungunya virus from a patient during an outbreak of a denguelike syndrome in Cameroon in 2006. The virus was phylogenetically grouped in the Democratic Republic of the Congo cluster, indicating a continuous circulation of a ...
Christophe N. Peyrefitte +15 more
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Chikungunya Virus Infection [PDF]
Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2011 Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. After half a century of focal outbreaks of acute febrile polyarthralgia in Africa and Asia, the disease unexpectedly spread in the past decade with large outbreaks in Africa and around the Indian Ocean and rare autochthonous transmission in ...
Simon, Fabrice +4 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2021 BackgroundChikungunya is now of public health concern globally due to its re-emergence in endemic areas and introduction into new areas of the world.
Jonathan Akwasi Adusei +7 more
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Nature Communications, 2023 The emergence and reemergence of mosquito-borne diseases in Brazil such as yellow fever, zika, chikungunya, and dengue have had serious impacts on public health. Concerns have been raised due to the rapid dissemination of the chikungunya virus across the
Joilson Xavier +96 more
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Seroprevalence of Chikungunya virus in blood donors from Northern and Southeastern Brazil
Hematology, Transfusion and Cell Therapy, 2018 Background: Chikungunya virus, an arbovirus that belongs to the Alphavirus genus of the Togaviridae family, causes a febrile illness accompanied by rash and arthralgia.
Svetoslav Nanev Slavov +8 more
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Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, 2017 For chikungunya virus (CHIKV), the long-term sequelae from infection are yet ill-defined. The prolonged debilitating arthralgia associated with CHIKV infection has tremendous potential for impacting the global economy and should be considered when evaluating the human burden of disease and the allocation of resources.
Vu, David M. +2 more
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Chikungunya Virus as the Agent of Emergent Viral Disease
Проблемы особо опасных инфекций, 2019 Chikungunya virus belongs to Alphavirus genus of the Togaviridae family. It is a member of Semliki Forest virus antigenic complex that includes antigenic related Semliki Forest, Chikungunya, O’ Nyong-nyong, Ross River viruses.
T. E. Sizikova +5 more
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The Chikungunya Epidemic: A look at five cases
IDCases, 2015 Chikungunya is an infection caused by the Chikungunya virus and transmitted by the bite of infected mosquito. The most common symptoms of Chikungunya virus infection are fever, joint pain or rash.
Bethel Shiferaw +6 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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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2023 Infections with Chikungunya virus, a mosquito-borne alphavirus, cause an acute febrile syndrome often followed by chronic arthritis that persists for months to years post-infection.
John M Powers +12 more
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