Chikungunya outbreak--remember the arthropathy |
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| Authors: | Volpe A Caramaschi P Angheben A Marchetta A Monteiro G Bambara L M Bisoffi Z |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Internal Medicine, Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, 1Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Verona, Verona and 2Department of Tropical Medicine, Sacro Cuore Hospital, Negrar, Italy |
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Introduction
| SIR, Chikungunya (CHIK) virus, a member of the Alphavirus genusin the family Togaviridae, was first isolated from the serumof a febrile human in the Newala district, Tanzania, in 19531]. CHIK is an important human pathogen that causes a syndrome characterizedby fever, chills, headache and severe joint pain with or withoutswelling (usually the smaller joints). The name is
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