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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Main Authors: Khatun, Selina, Chakraborty, Apurba, Rahman, Mahmudur, Nasreen Banu, Nuzhat, Rahman, Mohammad Mostafizur, Hasan, S. M. Murshid, Luby, Stephen P., Gurley, Emily S.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498910/