Chikungunya fever

K Bartholomeeusen, M Daniel, DA LaBeaud… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Chikungunya virus is widespread throughout the tropics, where it causes recurrent
outbreaks of chikungunya fever. In recent years, outbreaks have afflicted populations in East …

A review on chikungunya virus epidemiology, pathogenesis and current vaccine development

TYV de Lima Cavalcanti, MR Pereira, SO de Paula… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that recently re-emerged in
many parts of the world causing large-scale outbreaks. CHIKV infection presents as a febrile …

The global epidemiology of chikungunya from 1999 to 2020: A systematic literature review to inform the development and introduction of vaccines

AA Bettis, M L'Azou Jackson, IK Yoon… - PLoS neglected …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Chikungunya fever is an acute febrile illness that is often associated with severe
polyarthralgia in humans. The disease is caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito …

Africa and the Nexus of poverty, malnutrition and diseases

SAO Adeyeye, TJ Ashaolu, OT Bolaji… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This review examines the nexus of poverty, malnutrition and diseases in Africa, the
challenges, implications and their mitigation. The paper takes a critical look at available …

Chikungunya: epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical features, management, and prevention

F Vairo, N Haider, R Kock, F Ntoumi… - Infectious Disease …, 2019 - id.theclinics.com
Chikungunya (CHIK) is a disabling and debilitating zoonotic disease of humans caused by
the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), which is transmitted by CHIKV-infected Aedes spp …

Challenges and recent progress in drug discovery for tropical diseases

M De Rycker, B Baragaña, SL Duce, IH Gilbert - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Infectious tropical diseases have a huge effect in terms of mortality and morbidity, and
impose a heavy economic burden on affected countries. These diseases predominantly …

Probing RNA conformations using a polymer–electrolyte solid-state nanopore

C Chau, F Marcuccio, D Soulias, MA Edwards… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Nanopore systems have emerged as a leading platform for the analysis of biomolecular
complexes with single-molecule resolution. The conformation of biomolecules, such as …

Monitoring human arboviral diseases through wastewater surveillance: challenges, progress and future opportunities

WL Lee, X Gu, F Armas, M Leifels, F Wu, F Chandra… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Arboviral diseases are caused by a group of viruses spread by the bite of infected
arthropods. Amongst these, dengue, Zika, west nile fever and yellow fever cause the …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging infectious diseases in Africa in the 21st century

F Fenollar, O Mediannikov - New microbes and new infections, 2018 - Elsevier
Many infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in Africa in the 21st century. Some of
them are associated with newly discovered microorganisms such as Rickettsia felis and …

Immunogenicity, safety, and tolerability of the measles-vectored chikungunya virus vaccine MV-CHIK: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled and active …

EC Reisinger, R Tschismarov, E Beubler… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Chikungunya fever is an emerging viral disease and substantial threat to public
health. We aimed to assess the safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity of a live-attenuated …