Chikungunya virus

There have also been reported cases of dengue fever and Chikungunya virus.

There currently is no licensed vaccine to protect against chikungunya virus.

A fever similar to dengue is Chikungunya virus, also mosquito-borne.

Chikungunya virus belongs to alphavirus genus of the Togaviridae family.

Outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus have occurred in recent years; however, very few cases have been reported since 2006.

Chikungunya virus is closely related, producing a nearly indistinguishable, highly debilitating arthralgic disease.

About 500 troops affected by dengue fever and the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus were being treated at hospitals.

Very importantly, we upgraded and strengthened laboratory capacity in order to detect and identify the chikungunya virus.

More recently, VLPs have been used to develop a pre-clinical vaccine against chikungunya virus.

Upon having delivered the baby by section, the physicians discovered that he has also been infected with the Chikungunya virus, and put him into an intensive care.

The Thai physicians gave a preliminary presumption that Chikungunya virus might be able to be transmitted from a mother to her foetus.

The mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus, which causes fever, headaches, nausea and bone pains, has struck thousands of people on Mauritius this year.

There are cases of Chikungunya virus in 50 of Thailand's provinces, including the tourist destination of Phuket.

HGF may further play a role as an indicator for prognosis of chronicity for Chikungunya virus induced arthralgia.

In 1956 an epidemic occurred in the Murray Valley which was compared to "acute viral polyarthritis" caused by Chikungunya virus.

Enhanced transmission of chikungunya virus by A. albopictus could mean an increased risk for chikungunya outbreaks in other areas where the Asian tiger mosquito is present.

Patients tested IgM positive for chikungunya virus (CHIKV).

Although native to Africa, chikungunya virus had recently spread to southern India - where my patient, an avid globetrotter, had gone lame after being bitten by mosquitoes.

Chikungunya virus is indigenous to tropical Africa and Asia, where it is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes, usually of the genus Aedes.

If the virus happened to spread, such a serum or vaccine would be an effective treatment against the chikungunya virus and perhaps also against an even worse infection: dengue fever.

Infection of macrophages in joints is associated with local inflammation during and after the acute phase of Chikungunya (caused by CHIKV or Chikungunya Virus).

The Italian authorities, using the European early warning system, have informed the other EU Member States of a tropical fever epidemic caused by the chikungunya virus in the province of Emilia-Romagna.

Looking at the whole matter, I find it somewhat strange that no vaccine against the chikungunya virus is available yet, even though, according to some data, up to 1 million people were infected with the virus in Africa.

Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus closely related to the o'nyong'nyong virus, the Ross River virus in Australia, and the viruses that cause eastern equine encephalitis and western equine encephalitis.

Outbreaks of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus and yellow fever virus have been reported in recent years, as well as Leptospirosis, a bacterial disease transmitted to humans and animals by exposure to water contaminated by infected animals.