Chikungunya Virus in the Caribbean: A Threat for All of the Americas
| Autor: | Camilo E. Gutierrez, Enrique Gutierrez-Saravia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Western hemisphere
business.industry viruses virus diseases Outbreak General Medicine medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Arbovirus Virology Virus Autochthonous Transmission Infectious Diseases Caribbean Region Caribbean region parasitic diseases Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Epidemic spread medicine Ethnology Chikungunya Fever Humans Chikungunya business Chikungunya virus |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 4(1) |
| ISSN: | 2048-7207 |
| Popis: | The first known autochthonous transmission of chikungunya virus (CHIKV) fever in the Western Hemisphere occurred in October 2013 in the French sector of the island of Saint Martin, approximately 150 miles east from Puerto Rico [1]. Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne arbovirus widely distributed in Africa, Southeast Asia, and India, but until the last decade it was responsible mainly for sporadic, limited outbreaks of illness [2–5]. Its recent epidemic spread through the Caribbean now poses a threat to the continental countries of South, Central, and North America [6–10]. |
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