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Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for diagnosis and treatment of Chikungunya fever. Part 1 - Diagnosis and special situations

Rev. bras. reumatol; 57 (supl.2), 2017
Abstract Chikungunya fever has become a relevant public health problem in countries where epidemics occur. Until 2013, only imported cases occurred in the Americas, but in October of that year, the first cases were reported in Saint Marin island in the Caribbean. The first autochthonous cases were confir...

Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the diagnosis and treatment of chikungunya fever. Part 2 - Treatment

Rev. bras. reumatol; 57 (supl.2), 2017
Abstract Chikungunya fever has become an important public health problem in countries where epidemics occur because half of the cases progress to chronic, persistent and debilitating arthritis. Literature data on specific therapies at the various phases of arthropathy caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV) ...

Minimum infectious dose for chikungunya virus in Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes

ABSTRACT Understanding the ability of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) to be transmitted by Aedes vectors in the Americas is critical for assessing epidemiological risk. One element that must be considered is the minimum infectious dose of virus that can lead to transmission following the extrinsic incubati...

Caracterización clínica y epidemiológica de fiebre chikungunya en México

RESUMEN El 6 de diciembre de 2013, la Organización Panamericana de la Salud (OPS) y la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) notificaron la confirmación de los dos primeros casos de transmisión autóctona en la Región de las Américas de fiebre chikungunya (CHIK) en la isla de Saint Martin (Antilla...

Evaluation of three commercially-available chikungunya virus immunoglobulin G immunoassays

ABSTRACT The emergence of chikungunya virus in the Americas means the affected population is at risk of developing severe, chronic, rheumatologic disease, even months after acute infection. Accurate diagnostic methods for past infections are essential for differential diagnosis and consequence management...

First detection of dengue and chikungunya viruses in natural populations of Aedes aegypti in Martinique during the 2013 - 2015 concomitant outbreak

ABSTRACT Dengue and chikungunya viruses are transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. In Martinique, an island of the French West Indies, Aedes aegypti is the suspected vector of both arboviruses; there is no Aedes albopictus on the island. During the concomitant outbreak of 2013 - 2015, the authors collected wil...

Chikungunya virus outbreak in Sint Maarten, 2013-2014

ABSTRACT This report describes the outbreak of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in Sint Maarten, a constituent country of Kingdom of the Netherlands comprising the southern part of the Caribbean island of Saint Martin, from 22 December 2013 (first reported case) through 5 December 2014. The outbreak was first r...

Diferencias clínicas entre el Chikungunya y el dengue en la población salvadoreña que consultó de junio a diciembre de 2014, en las UCSF donde laboraron estudiantes de medicina en servicio social de la Universidad Salvadoreña Alberto Masferrer en el 2015
Clinical differences between Chikungunya and dengue in the Salvadoran population that consulted from June to December 2014, at the UCSF where medical students worked in social service at the Universidad Salvadoreña Alberto Masferrer in 2015

Masferrer Investiga; 3 (7), 2017
El presente estudio Diferencias clínicas entre el Chikungunya y el Dengue en la población salvadoreña que consultó de junio a diciembre de 2014, UCSF donde laboraron estudiantes de medicina en servicio social de la Universidad Salvadoreña Alberto Masferrer en el 2015; distribuidas a nivel de todo el...

Diagnóstico situacional de la notificación de enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos en el Hospital General de Agudos Cosme Argerich

El objetivo del presente diagnóstico es describir la modalidad de presentación de los casos de Enfermedad Transmitidas por Mosquitos (ETM) notificados a la División de Promoción y Protección desde los Servicios del Hospital Argerich y el Área Programática del Hospital Argerich y otras institucione...