Chikungunya risk for Brazil

• Autores principales: Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo (Autor), Consuelo Silva Oliveira (Autor), Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Universidade de São Paulo, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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This study aimed to show, based on the literature on the subject, the potential for dispersal and establishment of the chikungunya virus in Brazil. The chikungunya virus, a Togaviridae member of the genusAlphavirus, reached the Americas in 2013 and, the following year, more than a million cases were...