Chikungunya: a review
- 1 April 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Tropical Doctor
- Vol. 38 (2) , 70-72
- https://doi.org/10.1258/td.2007.070019
Abstract
SUMMARY The Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne Alphavirus, which causes epidemics of fever, rash and polyarthralgia in Africa and Asia. First isolate...Keywords
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