Chikungunya and the eye: a review

Chikungunya is a self-limited, systemic viral infection that has been a major health problem since the past few years. Ocular manifestations of the disease have become more prevalent in the recent years. Currently, there is neither a specific treatment nor vaccine available for chikungunya fever. Th...

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Autores principales: Mahendradas, Padmamalini, Avadhani, Kavitha, Shetty, Rohit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3605073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23514031
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1869-5760-3-35
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description Chikungunya is a self-limited, systemic viral infection that has been a major health problem since the past few years. Ocular manifestations of the disease have become more prevalent in the recent years. Currently, there is neither a specific treatment nor vaccine available for chikungunya fever. This review highlights the current understanding on the pathogenesis, systemic changes with an emphasis on ocular findings, laboratory investigations, and prevention and treatment of this disease.
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spelling pubmed-36050732013-03-25 Chikungunya and the eye: a review Mahendradas, Padmamalini Avadhani, Kavitha Shetty, Rohit J Ophthalmic Inflamm Infect Review Chikungunya is a self-limited, systemic viral infection that has been a major health problem since the past few years. Ocular manifestations of the disease have become more prevalent in the recent years. Currently, there is neither a specific treatment nor vaccine available for chikungunya fever. This review highlights the current understanding on the pathogenesis, systemic changes with an emphasis on ocular findings, laboratory investigations, and prevention and treatment of this disease. Springer 2013-02-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3605073/ /pubmed/23514031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1869-5760-3-35 Text en Copyright ©2013 Mahendradas et al; licensee Springer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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