Molecular Virologic and Clinical Characteristics of a Chikungunya Fever Outbreak in La Romana, Dominican Republic, 2014.

• Main Authors: Rose M Langsjoen (Author), Rebecca J Rubinstein (Author), Tiffany F Kautz (Author), Albert J Auguste (Author), Jesse H Erasmus (Author), Liddy Kiaty-Figueroa (Author), Renessa Gerhardt (Author), David Lin (Author), Kumar L Hari (Author), Ravi Jain (Author), Nicolas Ruiz (Author), Antonio E Muruato (Author), Jael Silfa (Author), Franklin Bido (Author), Matthew Dacso (Author), Scott C Weaver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Since emerging in Saint Martin in 2013, chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has infected approximately two million individuals in the Americas, with over 500,000 reported cases in the Dominican Republic (DR). CHIKV-infected patients typically present w...