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 …

Chikungunya: a potentially emerging epidemic?

MM Thiboutot, S Kannan, OU Kawalekar… - PLoS neglected …, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne emerging pathogen that has a major health impact
in humans and causes fever disease, headache, rash, nausea, vomiting, myalgia, and …

Chikungunya fever: epidemiology, clinical syndrome, pathogenesis and therapy

SD Thiberville, N Moyen, L Dupuis-Maguiraga… - Antiviral research, 2013 - Elsevier
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is the aetiological agent of the mosquito-borne disease
chikungunya fever, a debilitating arthritic disease that, during the past 7 years, has caused …

Chikungunya: an emerging public health concern

O Mourad, L Makhani, LH Chen - Current Infectious Disease Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The worldwide spread of chikungunya over the past two
decades calls for greater knowledge and awareness of the virus, its route of transmission …

[HTML][HTML] Chikungunya: a bending reality

Z Her, YW Kam, RTP Lin, LFP Ng - Microbes and infection, 2009 - Elsevier
Chikungunya fever is an acute illness caused by the arbovirus Chikungunya virus. The virus
is transmitted primarily in a sylvatic cycle involving the Aedes mosquitoes. Since 2005, a …

Chikungunya, a paradigm of neglected tropical disease that emerged to be a new health global risk

V Rougeron, IC Sam, M Caron, D Nkoghe… - Journal of clinical …, 2015 - Elsevier
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus of the Togaviridae family that causes chronic
and incapacitating arthralgia in human populations. Since its discovery in 1952, CHIKV was …

[HTML][HTML] Chikungunya in Southeast Asia: understanding the emergence and finding solutions

R Pulmanausahakul, S Roytrakul, P Auewarakul… - International Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
In the last few years, chikungunya has become a major problem in Southeast Asia, with
large numbers of cases being reported in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. Much of the …

Antiviral perspectives for chikungunya virus

D Parashar, S Cherian - BioMed Research International, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito‐borne pathogen that has a major health impact in
humans and causes acute febrile illness in humans accompanied by joint pains and, in …

Chikungunya: a paradigm of emergence and globalization of vector-borne diseases

F Simon, H Savini, P Parola - Medical Clinics of North America, 2008 - Elsevier
Chikungunya (CHIK) fever is a tropical arboviral disease responsible for acute polyarthritis
which can last for weeks to months. In 2007, the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) reached …

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 …