Chikungunya fever: a clinical and virological investigation of outpatients on Reunion Island, South-West Indian Ocean.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is responsible for acute febrile polyarthralgia and, in a proportion of cases, severe complications including chronic arthritis. CHIKV has spread recently in East Africa, South-West Indian Ocean, South-Asia and autochthonous cases have been reported in Europe. Although almost all patients are outpatients, medical investigations mainly focused on hospitalised patients.

Methodology/principal findings

Here, we detail clinico-biological characteristics of Chikungunya (CHIK) outpatients in Reunion Island (2006). 76 outpatients with febrile arthralgia diagnosed within less than 48 hours were included by general practitioners during the CuraChik clinical trial. CHIK was confirmed in 54 patients and excluded in 22. A detailed clinical and biologi

SUBMITTER: Thiberville SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3547841 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature