Emergent chikungunya virus and arthritis in the Americas

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1007-1008

  Rolph, Michael S ^a   Foo, Suan Sin ^a   Mahalingam, Suresh ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEDES ALBOPICTUS; AMERICAN; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; FEVER; HUMAN; JOINT SWELLING; LETTER; MORNING STIFFNESS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; VIRUS VIRULENCE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; ALPHAVIRUS INFECTION; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; COMPLICATION;

ALPHAVIRUS INFECTIONS; ARTHRITIS, INFECTIOUS; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; HUMANS;

EID: 84939807383     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00231-5     Document Type: Letter

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