Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus

Travelers returning from the tropics often present with rash/fever. Those with rash/fever and myalgias/arthralgias are most likely due to chikungunya fever, dengue fever, or Zika virus. In these arthropod viral transmitted infections, the rash may be pruritic. The case presented here is that of chik...

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Autores principales: Cunha, Burke A., Leonichev, Victoria B., Raza, Muhammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27679755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.09.003
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author Cunha, Burke A.
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description Travelers returning from the tropics often present with rash/fever. Those with rash/fever and myalgias/arthralgias are most likely due to chikungunya fever, dengue fever, or Zika virus. In these arthropod viral transmitted infections, the rash may be pruritic. The case presented here is that of chikungunya fever remarkable for the intensity and duration of her pruritis.
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spelling pubmed-50372542016-09-27 Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus Cunha, Burke A. Leonichev, Victoria B. Raza, Muhammad IDCases Case Report Travelers returning from the tropics often present with rash/fever. Those with rash/fever and myalgias/arthralgias are most likely due to chikungunya fever, dengue fever, or Zika virus. In these arthropod viral transmitted infections, the rash may be pruritic. The case presented here is that of chikungunya fever remarkable for the intensity and duration of her pruritis. Elsevier 2016-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5037254/ /pubmed/27679755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.09.003 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus
title_full Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus
title_fullStr Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus
title_full_unstemmed Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus
title_short Chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus
title_sort chikungunya fever presenting with protracted severe pruritus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27679755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2016.09.003
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