Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging alphavirus that caused massive outbreaks of Chikungunya fever in several countries and regions in Africa, Asia and more recently in Central and South America. An acute CHIKV infection is usually associated with fever and arthritis and it is rarely ...
Improve the integrity of the skin.Monitor site of impairedtissue integrityat least once daily for color changes, redness,swelling, warmth, pain, or other signs of infection; provide tissue care as needed; tell the patient to avoid rubbing and scratching; provide gloves or clip thenailsif necessa...
After acute chikungunya infection, striking hyperpigmentation of the skin may occur, including postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, freckling, streaks, and broad areas of hyperpigmentation. A bullous eruption may occur in acute chikungunya virus infection. About 90% of those with a bullous eruption are ...
or aerosol challenge. moreover, this is the first publication to our knowledge characterizing aerosol infection of nhps with chikv. methods animals and virus twelve (11 male, 1 female; age range 3–7.5years old) cynomolgus macaques (cms; macaca fascicularis ) procured from covance, inc. (...
measured by the presence of IgM and IgG antibodies, among individuals with suspected acute chikungunya infection, with suspected other arbovirus infection, with undifferentiated acute febrile illness or who were healthy. Studies reporting anti-DENV IgM and/or IgG during outbreak and non-outbreak setting...
An acute alpha-virus infection of the Sahara, tropics and subtropics, affecting children in rainy months. Clinical findingsFever, arthralgia and rash, which may in part be a “spillover” from the viral cycle maintained in wild primates. VectorsAedes aegypti, A africanus, A furcifer. Segen's...
Thein S, La Linn M, Aaskov J, Aung MM, Aye M, Zaw A, Myint A: Development of a simple indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of immunoglobulin M antibody in serum from patients following an outbreak of chikungunya virus infection in Yangon, Myanmar. Trans R Soc Trop...
“alphavirus infection”. VOSviewer also assigned colors to chikungunya-related terms based on publication years (Fig.3b). Purple indicates that the terms appear in the early years, whereas the yellow color is designated for terms that emerge in recent years. The progress of research on ...
It is now clear that the chikungunya virus is infecting travelers from the U.S. mainland to the Caribbean. A mosquito-borne disease, chikungunya infection resembles infection with the dengue virus. The most common symptoms are fever and joint pain; patients may also experience headache, muscle pa...
Rapid response to an emerging infectious disease - Lessons learned from development of a synthetic DNA vaccine targeting Zika virus Several ZIKV vaccine candidates that are immunogenic and effective at blocking ZIKV infection in animal models have since been developed, with some of these... SB Kud...