Chikungunya as a cause of acute febrile illness in southern Sri Lanka

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Reller, Megan E ^a,e   Akoroda, Ufuoma ^d   Nagahawatte, Ajith ^b   Devasiri, Vasantha ^b   Kodikaarachchi, Wasantha ^b   Strouse, John J ^a   Chua, Robert ^c   Hou, Yan'an ^c   Chow, Angelia ^c   Sessions, October M ^c   Østbye, Truls ^d,e   Gubler, Duane J ^c   Woods, Christopher W ^d,e   Bodinayake, Champica ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RUHUNA   (Sri Lanka)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Hubert Yeargan Center for Global Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INDIAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY; SRI LANKA; VIRUS ISOLATION; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CHIKUNGUNYA ALPHAVIRUS; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; COMPLICATION; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; PATHOGENICITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SRI LANKA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891591782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082259     Document Type: Article

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