Electrocardiographic alterations in patients with chikungunya fever from Sucre, Colombia: A 42-case series

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 510-512

  Villamil Gómez, Wilmer E ^a,b,c,d   Ramirez Vallejo, Eduardo ^e   Cardona Ospina, Jaime A ^e   Silvera, Luz Alba ^b   Rodríguez Morales, Alfonso J ^a,c,d,e,f  

^a Hospital Universitario de Sincelejo   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL ATLÁNTICO   (Colombia)

^c Pan American Association of Infectious Diseases   (Ecuador)

^d Asociación Colombiana de Infectología   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

^f Working Group on Zoonoses   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Chikungunya; Clinical; Colombia; Latin America

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; CHIKUNGUNYA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MYOCARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; R WAVE; REPOLARIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROLOGY; THORAX PAIN; CASE REPORT; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COLOMBIA; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER; CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS; COLOMBIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84979784996     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.06.004     Document Type: Letter

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