Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a single-stranded RNA virus belonging to the family Togaviridae
and genus Alphavirus that causes an acute febrile illness, chikungunya fever, which is …

Objective Chikungunya virus infection is a rapidly emerging global viral infection that can
cause chronic, debilitating arthritis that in some ways mimics rheumatoid arthritis. The aim of …

Chikungunya fever (CHIKF) is an emerging viral infection that has spread widely, along with
its Aedes vectors, throughout the tropics and beyond, causing explosive epidemics of acute …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection results from transmission by the mosquito vector.
Following an incubation period of 5–7 days, patients develop an acute febrile illness, …

The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Cariri (Ceará,
Brazil; n 2.567. 975). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were …

In 50% of patients, chikungunya fever (CHIKF) is followed by arthritic pain that is often chronic,
painful, and disabling. To better define the spectrum of pain and disability in chronic CHIK …

In this article, we use the term ‘postinfectious inflammatory arthritis’ rather than ‘reactive
arthritis’ because it describes a broader spectrum of diseases and emphasizes the common …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an enveloped, spherical single-stranded RNA virus about 60–70
nm in diameter, belonging to the alphavirus genus and family Togaviridae. CHIKV is …

Here we present a standard developed by the Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) for
reporting marker gene sequences—the minimum information about a marker gene sequence (…

Chikungunya fever (CHIKF) is an emerging viral infection that has spread widely, along with
its Aedes vectors, throughout the tropics and beyond, causing explosive epidemics of both …