Between 1952 and 1953, an estimated 60% to 80% of the population in this region developed symptoms of fever, rash, and arthralgia.8 Attempts to isolate the pathologic agent from symptomatic individuals during the outbreak also diverged from previous experience with dengue virus (DENV): ...
Chikungunya virusis an insect-borne viral illness that causes sudden onsetfever, arthralgia, and rash. It is transmitted to humans through day-biting mosquitoes that belong to the Aedes genus. The term “Chikungunya” often refers to both the virus (CHIKV) and the illness or fever (CHIKF) ...
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and causes an acute symptomatic illness with fever, skin rash, and incapacitating arthralgia, which can evolve into chronic rheumatoid arthritis in elderly patients. This is a tropical disease originally described in central/east Africa in...
About half to three quarters or more of patients with chikungunya virus infection develop a rash. It is pruritic in 20%–50% of the patients. The most common and characteristic exanthem is described as morbilliform and most frequently affects the arms, upper trunk, and face. It can be con...
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes and causes an acute symptomatic illness with fever, skin rash, and incapacitating arthralgia, ... T Das,MC Jaffar-Bandjee,JJ Hoarau,... - 《Progress in Neurobiology》 被引量: 278发表: 2010年 Chikungunya fever: a re-emerging vir...
skin rash. Chronic arthritis may develop in the patients and is associated with fever, asthenia and exacerbation of arthralgia, inflammatory polyarthritis, and stiffness [4,5]. The Alphavirus group comprises of 28 viruses, six of which can cause human joint...
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging arbovirus of the Togaviridae family that poses a present worldwide threat to human in the absence of any licensed vaccine or antiviral treatment to control viral infection. Here, we show that compounds interfering
About 89% of cases exhibited retro-orbital pain, while skin rash was present in 72% of cases. Just over half of the cases (51%) had headache. The overall attack rate (cases per 1000 population) for chikungunya in the 20 districts where the cases were reported up until the time of ...
The disease typically consists of an acute illness with fever, skin rash, and arthralgia. The word chikungunya used for both the virus and the disease means "to walk bent over" in some East African languages. Chikungunya is a specifically tropical disease but it is geographically restricted and...
This mosquito-borne virus has made the jump from Africa to the Americas, combining rapid transmission with searing pain. Here's what to know.