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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Chikungunya is a disease caused by an arboviral alphavirus transmitted to humans by Aedes mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti, Ae. albopictus). Symptoms include fever, myalgia, rash, and joint pain (which can last...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 22, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: The earliest clinical cases of Zika virus infection were reported from continental South America in 2015 (1), after which the virus spread rapidly through the Americas (2). Here we describe an...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 20, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Chikungunya fever is a dengue-like syndrome characterized by acute fever, arthralgia, and maculopapular rash. The causative agent is chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which is transmitted by Aedes aegypti and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Longitudinal data and trends about chikungunya virus (CHIKV) are critical for its control, however in Mozambique very few studies were conducted over 5 decades, between 1957 and 2013. In this study, we...
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From:Indian Journal of Ophthalmology (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Kalpana. Babu, Gowri. Murthy Dear Editor, We read with interest the article titled "Chikungunya virus iridocyclitis in Fuchs' heterochromic iridocyclitis" by Mahendradas et al. [sup][1] We would like to...
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From:Journal of Pediatric Neurosciences (Vol. 11, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedByline: Vikneswari. Karthiga, Peter. Kommu, Lalitha. Krishnan We report a case of vertically transmitted chikungunya infection in heterozygous twin neonates presenting as seizures, encephalopathy, midfacial...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 27, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedParaguay has been severely affected by emergent Zika and chikungunya viruses, and dengue virus is endemic. To learn more about the origins of genetic diversity and epidemiologic history of these viruses in Paraguay, we...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTo the Editor: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) first emerged in Indian Ocean islands off the eastern coast of Africa in 2005 and was responsible for large-scale epidemics on the islands of Reunion, Comoros, Mayotte,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 8, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Florine E. M. Scholte 1, Ali Tas 1, Byron E. E. Martina 2, Paolo Cordioli 3, Krishna Narayanan 4, Shinji Makino 4, Eric J. Snijder 1, Martijn J. van Hemert 1,* Introduction Chikungunya virus (CHIKV)...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedIn response to the aggressive global spread of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an accurate and accessible diagnostic tool is of high importance. CHIKV, an arthritogenic alphavirus, comprises three...
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From:Neurology India (Vol. 57, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedByline: JMK. Murthy Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an insect-borne virus, of the genus, Alphavirus and the family Togaviridae that is transmitted to humans by virus-carrying Aedes mosquitoes[sup] [1] and was first...
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From:BioMed Research InternationalPeer-ReviewedDengue virus (DENV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) are arboviruses that share the same Aedes mosquito vectors and thus overlap in their endemic areas. These two viruses also cause similar clinical presentations,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjectives To describe and estimate the frequency of pregnancy outcomes, clinical and laboratory characteristics of vertical transmission of CHIKV in the neonate. Study design We performed a systematic review...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedChikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne Alphavirus that causes severe and debilitating disease symptoms. Alarmingly, transmission rates of CHIKV have increased dramatically over the last decade resulting in 1.7...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 125, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBACKGROUND: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a reemerging pathogen transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes. The ongoing Caribbean outbreak is of concern due to the potential for infected travelers to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedChikungunya virus-like particles (VLPs) have potential to be used as a prophylactic vaccine based on testing in multiple animal models and are currently being evaluated for human use in a Phase I clinical trial. The...
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From:Nature (Vol. 468, Issue 7324) Peer-ReviewedChikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging mosquito-borne alphavirus that has caused widespread outbreaks of debilitating human disease in the past five years (1). CHIKV invasion of susceptible cells is mediated by two...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 20, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn 2010, chikungunya virus of the East Central South African genotype was isolated from 4 children in Myanmyar who had dengue-like symptoms. Phylogenetic analysis of the E1 gene revealed that the isolates were closely...
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From:Future Microbiology (Vol. 5, Issue 3)Researchers in the USA have identified a novel antiviral compound that could represent an effective treatment for a whole host of viral diseases including influenza, HIV, Ebola and Dengue. Antiviral drug development...
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From:Emerging Infectious Diseases (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAfter the 2014-2015 outbreak of chikungunya virus in the US Virgin Islands, we compared the prevalence of persistent arthralgia among case-patients and controls. Prevalence was higher in case-patients than controls 6...