Outbreak of Chikungunya on Reunion Island: Early Clinical and Laboratory Features in 157 Adult Patients

Borgherini, Giannandrea; Poubeau, P.; Staïkowsky, F.; Lory, M.; Le Moullec, Nathalie; Becquart, J.Ph.; Wengling, C.; Michault, Alain; Paganin, Fabrice

doi:10.1086/517537

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Outbreak of Chikungunya on Reunion Island: Early Clinical and Laboratory Features in 157 Adult Patients

Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases • May 3, 2007

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Giannandrea Borgherini

P. Poubeau

F. Staïkowsky

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Chikungunya is a reemerging disease. In 2005-2006, a severe outbreak occurred on Reunion Island in the southwestern part of the Indian Ocean. Other islands in this area were affected during the same period. METHODS: Adult patients with acute chikungunya (defined as onset of fever and/or ...

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Outbreak

Chikungunya

Medicine

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