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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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Tropism of the Chikungunya Virus [PDF]
Viruses, 2019 Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne virus that displays a large cell and organ tropism, and causes a broad range of clinical symptoms in humans. It is maintained in nature through both urban and sylvatic cycles, involving mosquito vectors and human or vertebrate animal hosts.
Giulia Matusali +6 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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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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Antivirals against the Chikungunya Virus [PDF]
Viruses, 2021 Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus that has re-emerged in recent decades, causing large-scale epidemics in many parts of the world. CHIKV infection leads to a febrile disease known as chikungunya fever (CHIKF), which is characterised by severe joint pain and myalgia.
Battisti, Verena +2 more
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Reemergence of Chikungunya Virus [PDF]
Journal of Virology, 2014 ABSTRACT Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-transmitted alphavirus that causes acute fever and acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain in humans. Since 2004, CHIKV has caused millions of cases of disease in the Indian Ocean region and has emerged in new areas, including Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific region. The mosquito vectors
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Viruses, 2023 Arboviruses have been shown to circulate in Madagascar, including West Nile, dengue, and chikungunya viruses, though the extent of their circulation remains poorly documented.
Anaïs Broban +8 more
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First report of Chikungunya virus infection in Nepal
Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2014 Chikungunya virus is an emerging arboviral disease that has been spreading rapidly across south Asia in recent years. Until recently, no chikungunya cases have been reported in Nepal.
Sher Bahadur Pun +2 more
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PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2018 BackgroundDuring 2015-16 Brazil experienced the largest epidemic of Zika virus ever reported. This arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) has been linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) in adults but other neurological associations are uncertain. Chikungunya
Ravi Mehta +21 more
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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.
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