Clinical profile of Chikungunya patients during the epidemic of 2007 in Kerala, India

Journal of Global Infectious Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 221-226

  Vijayakumar, Krishna Pillai ^a   Nair Anish, Thekkumkara Surendran ^a   George, Biju ^a   Lawrence, Tony ^a   Muthukkutty, Sujina C ^a   Ramachandran, Reshmi ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Chikungunya; Clinical feature; Epidemic; India; Kerala

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANKLE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BED REST; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; EDEMA; EPIDEMIC; ERYTHEMA; EYE; EYE REDNESS; FEMALE; FEVER; FINGER; FOOT; HAND; HAND JOINT; HEADACHE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; JOINT SWELLING; KNEE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUTH ULCER; NAUSEA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK FACTOR; SHIVERING; SHOULDER; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SYMPTOM; ULCER; VIRUS MUTATION; VOMITING;

EID: 80051860142     PISSN: 0974777X     EISSN: 09748245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0974-777X.83526     Document Type: Article

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