Chikungunya fever: a clinical and virological investigation of outpatients on Reunion Island, South-West Indian Ocean.

• Hlavní autoři: Simon-Djamel Thiberville (Autor), Veronique Boisson (Autor), Jean Gaudart (Autor), Fabrice Simon (Autor), Antoine Flahault (Autor), Xavier de Lamballerie (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Témata: article
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is responsible for acute febrile polyarthralgia and, in a proportion of cases, severe complications including chronic arthritis. CHIKV has spread recently in East Africa, South-West Indian Ocean, South-Asia and autochthonous cases have been reported in Europe. Although almo...