Chikungunya: epidemiology [version 1; referees: 2 approved]
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne alphavirus that causes fever and debilitating joint pains in humans. Joint pains may last months or years. It is vectored primarily by the tropical and sub-tropical mosquito, Aedes aegypti, but is also found to be transmitted by Aedes albopictus, a mosquito spec...
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F1000 Research Ltd
2016-01-01
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| Online Access: | http://f1000research.com/articles/5-82/v1 |