Re-emerging chikungunya fever: Some lessons from Asia

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 940-946

  Bhatia, Rajesh ^a   Narain, Jai P ^a  

^a WHO Regional Office for South East Asia   (India)

Author keywords

Asia; Chikungunya; Re emergence

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE INCIDENCE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORBIDITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; VIRAL DISEASE;

AEDES AEGYPTI; AEDES ALBOPICTUS; ASIA; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; VECTOR CONTROL; VIRAL GENETICS; VIRUS INFECTION;

AEDES; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ANIMALS; ASIA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; WORLD HEALTH;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 68949105539     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2009.02312.x     Document Type: Review

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