Outbreak of chikungunya on Reunion Island: Early clinical and laboratory features in 157 adult patients

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1401-1407

  Borgherini, Gianandrea ^a   Poubeau, Patrice ^a   Staikowsky, Frederik ^a   Lory, Manuella ^a   Le Moullec, Nathalie ^a   Becquart, Jean Philippe ^a   Wengling, Catherine ^a   Michault, Alain ^a   Paganin, Fabrice ^a  

^a Groupe Hospitalier Sud Reunion   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEMATEMESIS; HEMATURIA; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INDIAN OCEAN; LABORATORY TEST; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADULT; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REUNION;

EID: 34249075782     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517537     Document Type: Article

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