First reported chikungunya fever outbreak in the republic of Congo, 2011

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Moyen, Nanikaly ^a   Thiberville, Simon Djamel ^a   Pastorino, Boris ^a   Nougairede, Antoine ^a   Thirion, Laurence ^a   Mombouli, Jean Vivien ^c   Dimi, Yannick ^b   Leparc Goffart, Isabelle ^d   Capobianchi, Maria Rosaria ^e   Lepfoundzou, Amelia Dzia ^b   De Lamballerie, Xavier ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Ctr Natl de Transfusion Sanguine   (Congo)

^c Laboratoire National de Sante Publique Congo   (Congo)

^d IRBA Armed Forces Biomedical Research Institute   (France)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; CENTRAL AFRICA; CHIKUNGUNYA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGO; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MYALGIA; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REUNION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SEROPREVALENCE; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADOLESCENT; AEDES; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ARBOVIRUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEDES; AGED; ANIMALS; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CONGO; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYLOGENY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919935135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0115938     Document Type: Article

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