Seroprevalence of Chikungunya Virus in a Rural Community in Brazil.

• Main Authors: Rivaldo V Cunha (Author), Karen S Trinta (Author), Camila A Montalbano (Author), Michel V F Sucupira (Author), Maricelia M de Lima (Author), Erenilde Marques (Author), Izilyanne H Romanholi (Author), Julio Croda (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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BACKGROUND:The emergence of the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is currently expanding. In 2015, 38,332 cases of Chikungunya were reported to the Brazilian epidemiological surveillance system. Eighteen months after notification of the first case in the city of Feira de Santana, we conducted the first sero...