Chikungunya Fever: An Epidemiological Review of a Re-Emerging Infectious Disease

• Published in: Clinical infectious diseases Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 942 - 948
• Main Authors: Staples, J. Erin, Breiman, Robert F., Powers, Ann M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford The University of Chicago Press 15.09.2009; University of Chicago Press; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Alphavirus Infections - diagnosis; Alphavirus Infections - epidemiology; Alphavirus Infections - prevention & control; Animals; Arboviroses; Biological and medical sciences; Chikungunya virus; Chikungunya virus - genetics; Communicable Disease Control; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - prevention & control; Communicable Diseases, Emerging - virology; Culicidae - virology; Disease outbreaks; Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control; Disease prevention; Disease transmission; Diseases; EMERGING INFECTIONS; Epidemics; Epidemiology; Fever; Global Health; Human viral diseases; Humans; Infections; Infectious diseases; Insect Control; Insect Vectors - virology; Medical sciences; Miscellaneous; Molecular Epidemiology; Preventive medicine; Public Health; Risk factors; Tropical viral diseases; Viral diseases; Viruses; Indian Ocean; ANE, Europe; ISW, Indian Ocean; Infection; Viral disease; Emerging disease; Arbovirus disease; Chikungunya; Epidemiology; Fever; Bibliographic review

Chikungunya fever is an acute febrile illness associated with severe, often debilitating polyarthralgias. The disease is caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arthropod-borne virus that is transmitted to humans primarily via the bite of an infected mosquito. Since a re-emergence of CHIKV in 2004,...