Chikungunya as a cause of acute febrile illness in southern Sri Lanka.

Chikungunya as a cause of acute febrile illness in southern Sri Lanka.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged in Sri Lanka in late 2006 after a 40-year hiatus. We sought to identify and characterize acute chikungunya infection (CHIK) in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated febrile illness in unstudied rural and semi-urban southern Sri Lanka in 2007.We enrolled...

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Main Authors: Megan E Reller, Ufuoma Akoroda, Ajith Nagahawatte, Vasantha Devasiri, Wasantha Kodikaarachchi, John J Strouse, Robert Chua, Yan'an Hou, Angelia Chow, October M Sessions, Truls Østbye, Duane J Gubler, Christopher W Woods, Champica Bodinayake
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3846738?pdf=render

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