First Chikungunya Outbreak in Suriname; Clinical and Epidemiological Features.

• Main Authors: Farah T van Genderen (Author), Ingrid Krishnadath (Author), Rachel Sno (Author), Meritha G Grunberg (Author), Wilco Zijlmans (Author), Malti R Adhin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:In June 2014, Suriname faced the first Chikungunya outbreak. Since international reports mostly focus on hospitalized patients, the least affected group, a study was conducted to describe clinical characteristics of mainly outpatients including children. In addition, the cumulative incide...