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

• Main Authors: Simon-Djamel Thiberville (Author), Veronique Boisson (Author), Jean Gaudart (Author), Fabrice Simon (Author), Antoine Flahault (Author), Xavier de Lamballerie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...