The Chikungunya Epidemic: A look at five cases

IDCases

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 89-91

  Shiferaw, Bethel ^a   Lam, Paul ^a   Tuthill, Summer ^a   Choudhry, Hira ^a   Syed, Sarah ^a   Ahmed, Shadab ^a   Yasmin, Tabassum ^a  

^a NASSAU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Americas; Chikungunya; Endemic; Epidemic; Local transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BONE PAIN; CHIKUNGUNYA; CHILD; CHILL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MACULOPAPULAR RASH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYALGIA; NECK PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEROLOGY;

EID: 84952027017     PISSN: 22142509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2015.08.004     Document Type: Article

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