Key aspects of 36 mosquito-borne arboviruses indigenous to Africa are summarized,
including lesser or poorly-known viruses which, like Zika, may have the potential to escape …

Chikungunya is a severe and debilitating disease. Currently, Brazil is experiencing an
epidemic caused by three arboviruses, which has changed the way health professionals …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emergent arthropod-borne virus (arbovirus) that causes a
disease characterized primarily by fever, rash and severe persistent polyarthralgia. In the …

While the world's attention is focused on controlling COVID-19, evidence points at the
biodiversity crisis as a leading factor in its emergence, and the outbreak of many past …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of increasing public health
significance, has caused large epidemics in Africa and the Indian Ocean basin; now it is …

Background Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by the chikungunya virus
(CHIKV), causes a significant global health burden, and there is currently no approved …

Background Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is the causative agent of Japanese
encephalitis, the leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia. JEV transmission cycle involves …

RNA viruses are known to replicate by low fidelity polymerases and have high mutation
rates whereby the resulting virus population tends to exist as a distribution of mutants. In this …

The antibody isotype IgM appears earlier than IgG, within days of onset of symptoms, and is
important during the early stages of the adaptive immune response. Little is known about the …

Abstract Background Dengue, Zika and chikungunya are arboviruses of significant public
health importance that are transmitted by Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes …