Atypical Chikungunya virus infections: Clinical manifestations, mortality and risk factors for severe disease during the 2005-2006 outbreak on Réunion

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 534-541

  Economopoulou, A ^a,b,e   Dominguez, M ^a   Helynck, B ^a   Sissoko, D ^c   Wichmann, O ^d   Quenel, P ^c   Germonneau, P ^a   Quatresous, I ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^c Institut de Veille Sanitaire ^*  (France)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^e Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chikungunya virus; Clinical manifestations; Outbreak; R union; Severity

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG USE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEMATURIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; MYALGIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PROGNOSIS; REUNION; RISK FACTOR; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS RASH; THORAX PAIN; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEPATITIS, VIRAL, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REUNION; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69649083952     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808001167     Document Type: Article

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