Chikungunya Virus Infection
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Fabrice Simon; Emilie Javelle; Manuela Oliver; Isabelle Leparc-Goffart; Catherin
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Article
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2011
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Springer
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English
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Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an alphavirus transmitted by mosquitoes, mostly __Aedes aegypti__ and __Aedes albopictus__. After half a century of focal outbreaks of acute febrile polyarthralgia in Africa and Asia, the disease unexpectedly spread in the past decade with large outbreaks in Africa and a