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Chikungunya outbreak in Garo Hills, Meghalaya: An epidemiological perspective

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Chikungunya (CHIK) fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV). Chikungunya infection was first reported from India in 1963 from Kolkata. We report the serological and molecular evidence of an outbreak of chikungunya in northeast India that occu...

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Autores principales: Khan, Siraj Ahmed, Dutta, Prafulla, Topno, Rashmee, Borah, Jani, Chowdhury, Purvita, Mahanta, Jagadish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4510757/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26139776
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-5916.159521