Las infecciones por arbovirus constituyen un reto significativo para los sistemas de salud. Cada vez se incrementa el reconocimiento de complicaciones del sistema nervioso central secundarias a ellas, lo que puede ser un dilema para su diagnóstico y tratamiento. Los arbovirus pueden alterar los mecanism...
Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus, member of the Togaviridae family, first discovered in Africa in 1952. Since then it caused sporadic outbreaks in Africa and Asia, but since 2000, outbreaks had been more frequent, being identified in Europe, America and the Caribbean. Chikungunya virus can cause chr...
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...
ABSTRACT The epidemics of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) infections have been considered the most important epidemiological occurrences in the Americas. The clinical picture of CHIKV infection is characterized by high fever, exanthema, myalgia, headaches, and arthralgia. Besides the typi...
Introducción A partir de julio de 2015, en el estado de Yucatán, México, se presentó un brote de chikungunya. Objetivo Analizar el curso clínico de un caso de chikungunya de trasmisión vectorial y proporcionar evidencia práctica que sirva para orientar impresiones diagnósticas y pronósticas futu...
