The Zika virus (ZIKV), first discovered in 1947, has emerged as a global public health threat
over the last decade, with the accelerated geographic spread of the virus noted during the …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) has caused several major epidemics globally over the last two
decades and is quickly expanding into new areas. Although this mosquito-borne disease is …

Chikungunya fever has caught fresh attention as it raves around the globe. Since the first
report of a major outbreak in Kenya in 2004, the disease has travelled across the Indian …

Background Chikungunya (CHIK) is currently endemic in South and Central India and exist
as co-infections with dengue in Northern India. In 2010, New Delhi witnessed an outbreak of …

Background Early detection of an impending flood and the availability of countermeasures to
deal with it can significantly reduce its health impacts. In developing countries like India …

Objective To develop a single‐step multiplex PCR to differentiate the aquatic stages of
Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus and Aedes vittatus collected from different breeding spots …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arthritogenic alphavirus, is transmitted to humans by
mosquitoes of genus Aedes, mainly Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. The resurgence of …

Viral load in the serum samples was determined by real time-PCR targeting the E3 structural
protein region using the standard curve method11-13. One step real time RT-PCR was …

Chikungunya (CHIK) fever is one of the most important arboviral infections of medical
significance. The objective of the present study is to identify and characterize the etiology of …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging arthropod born virus belonging to genus
Alphavirus and family Togaviridae with a+(ve) sense single stranded RNA of 11.8 Kb as …