Travelers with Chikungunya Virus Infection Returning to Northwest Italy from the Caribbean and Central America during June-November 2014

Journal of Travel Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 341-344

  Burdino, Elisa ^a   Ruggiero, Tina ^a   Milia, Maria Grazia ^a   Proietti, Alex ^a   Sergi, Giuseppina ^a   Torta, Ilaria ^a   Calleri, Guido ^a   Caramello, Pietro ^a   Tiberti, Donatella ^b   Ghisetti, Valeria ^a  

^a AMEDEO DI SAVOIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Azienda Sanitaria Locale ASL AL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACUTE HEPATITIS A; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS; CARIBBEAN; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DENGUE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; EL SALVADOR; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HAITI; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ITALY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MARTINIQUE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYALGIA; PRURITUS; RASH; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRAVEL; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VOMITING; AEDES; ANIMAL; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TROPIC CLIMATE; VIROLOGY;

AEDES; ANIMALS; CARIBBEAN REGION; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INSECT VECTORS; ITALY; LATIN AMERICA; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TRAVEL; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 84941179552     PISSN: 11951982     EISSN: 17088305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jtm.12219     Document Type: Review

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