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Reappearance of Chikungunya, Formerly Called Dengue, in the Americas

After an absence of ≈200 years, chikungunya returned to the American tropics in 2013. The virus is maintained in a complex African zoonotic cycle but escapes into an urban cycle at 40- to 50-year intervals, causing global pandemics. In 1823, classical chikungunya, a viral exanthem in humans, occurre...

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Autor principal: Halstead, Scott B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4378492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25816211
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2104.141723