An Outbreak of Chikungunya in Rural Bangladesh, 2011
Chikungunya virus is transmitted through bites from Aedes mosquitoes and causes outbreaks of fever and polyarthralgia; the geographic range of infection is expanding. An outbreak of fever with prolonged joint pain was investigated in Bangladesh in 2011, where house-to-house surveys were carried out...
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498910/ |