Death due to chikungunya
| Autor: | Rajyasree De, Rana Bhattacharya, Debasish Bandyopadhyay, Bibhuti Saha, Amiyakumar K. Hati, Hiranmoy Mukherjee, Bhaswati Bandyopadhyay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Communicable disease business.industry Alphavirus Infections Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Virology Infectious Diseases Environmental health Tropical medicine Epidemiology Medicine Humans Female Viral disease Chikungunya Alphavirus infection business Chikungunya virus |
| Zdroj: | Tropical doctor. 39(3) |
| ISSN: | 0049-4755 |
| Popis: | After its first appearance in Kolkata (Calcutta) during 1963–1965, chikungunya occurred in epidemic form in India in 17 states and union territories. There were 13,90,322 cases suspected to be suffering from chikungunya in 2006, 59,535 in 2007 and 11,222 in 2008; in 2006, 2007 and 2008 there were 15,961, 7,837 and 262 samples, respectively, sent to the National Institute of Virology, Pune, and the National Institute of Communicable Disease, Delhi, for serological diagnosis. Of these, 2001, 1826 and 44, respectively, were confirmed as chikungunya. There were no deaths (data from the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, Government of India). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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