Cocirculation of dengue, chikungunya, and zika viruses in. Agente virus chikungunya2 virus arn genero alfavirus, familia togaviridae. Abstract chikungunya virus chikv is a reemerging mosquitoborne alphavirus. During the first week of infection, chikungunya virus can be found in the blood and passed from an infected person to a mosquito through mosquito bites. Reemergence of chikungunya virus journal of virology asm.
Chikungunya virus chikv is a mosquitotransmitted alphavirus that causes acute fever and acute and. Les traitements existants sont uniquement symptomatiques. Chikungunya virus is spread to people by the bite of an infected mosquito. The word chikungunya originates from the makonde language, spoken in tanzania and mozambique, meaning that which bends up1. Chikungunya virus is an alphavirus genus alphavirus, family togaviridae that is primarily transmitted to humans by aedes mosquitoes, and occasionally from mother to child. Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, and a rash. The most common symptoms of infection are fever and joint pain. Chikungunya virus chikv is a mosquitotransmitted alphavirus that causes acute fever and acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain in humans. Sintomas del dengue, virus zika y fiebre chikungunya youtube. An infected mosquito can then spread the virus to other people. Shortly after the first case the disease began to spread rapidly throughout the caribbean region. Know more about the symptoms and treatment of chikungunya in this presentation ppt. Reunion, the outbreak affected about a third of the population 9, 21 and in india, the. Chikungunya is an infection caused by the chikungunya virus chikv.
The neurological complications of chikungunya virus. Chikungunya is spread by mosquitoes and is characterised by severe joint pains with fever. In latin america and the caribbean, the recent epidemics of mosquitoborne arboviruses, including the chikungunya virus chikv and zika virus zikv, combined with the preexistence of the dengue virus denv 1, 2, have resulted in the circulation of three substantially pathogenic arboviruses that exhibit similar acute symptoms 36. Other symptoms may include headache, muscle pain, joint swelling, or rash. In july 20, a caribbeanwide virtual meeting was held to educate highranking medical personnel on how to detect the virus. Estos mosquitos, por lo general, pican durante las horas del dia. These typically occur two to twelve days after exposure. It is unclear how the virus first spread to the americas mosquito population. Chez lhomme, il provoque une maladie tropicale, le chikungunya.
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