Chikungunya epidemic: An Indian perspective

National Medical Journal of India

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 315-322

  Kalantri, S P ^a,b   Joshi, Rajnish ^a,b,c   Riley, Lee W ^a,c  

^a MAHATMA GANDHI INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Division of Epidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ANTIULCER AGENT; ARTEMETHER; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CHLOROQUINE; MULTIVITAMIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; STEROID;

ACCURACY; AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; BED NET; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIC; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEVER; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSECT BITE; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALARIA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RASH; REVIEW; SEROLOGY; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; TANZANIA; TOGAVIRUS; TRAVEL; TYPHOID FEVER; VIRUS CULTURE; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS MUTATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; BITES AND STINGS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 33847231843     PISSN: 0970258X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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