Chikungunya outbreak (2015) in the Colombian Caribbean: Latent classes and gender differences in virus infection.

ABSTRACT: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne alphavirus of the Togaviridae family, is part of a group of emergent diseases, including arbovirus, constituting an increasing public health problem in tropical areas worldwide. CHIKV causes a severe and debilitating disease with high morbidity. The first Colombian autochthonous case was reported in the Colombian Caribbean region in September 2014. Within the next two to three months, the CHIKV outbreak reached its peak. Although the CHIKV pattern of clinical symptomatology has been documented in different epidemiological studies, understanding of the relationship between clinical symptomatology and variation in phenotypic response to CHIKV infection in humans remains limited. We performed a cross sectional study following 1160 individuals clinic

SUBMITTER: Vidal OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7304630 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature