Chikungunya outbreak (2015) in the Colombian Caribbean: Latent classes and gender differences in virus infection.

• Main Authors: Oscar M Vidal (Author), Jorge Acosta-Reyes (Author), Jesús Padilla (Author), Edgar Navarro-Lechuga (Author), Elsa Bravo (Author), Diego Viasus (Author), Mauricio Arcos-Burgos (Author), Jorge I Vélez (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of the Togaviridae family, is part of a group of emergent diseases, including arbovirus, constituting an increasing public health problem in tropical areas worldwide. CHIKV causes a severe and debilitating disease with high morbidity. The first...