Chikungunya virus is widespread throughout the tropics, where it causes recurrent
outbreaks of chikungunya fever. In recent years, outbreaks have afflicted populations in East …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a reemerging arbovirus, causes a crippling musculoskeletal
inflammatory disease in humans characterized by fever, polyarthralgia, myalgia, rash, and …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is the aetiological agent of the mosquito-borne disease
chikungunya fever, a debilitating arthritic disease that, during the past 7 years, has caused …

Animal models have been used in experimental research to increase human knowledge
and contribute to finding solutions to biological and biomedical questions. However …

In the past decade, chikungunya—a virus transmitted by Aedes spp mosquitoes—has re-
emerged in Africa, southern and southeastern Asia, and the Indian Ocean Islands as the …

The largest epidemic ever recorded for chikungunya, a disease caused by infection with the
chikungunya virus (CHIKV), began in Africa in 2004 and spread to> 100 countries on four …

Mosquito-transmitted alphaviruses causing human rheumatic disease are globally
distributed and include chikungunya virus, Ross River virus, Barmah Forest virus, Sindbis …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an emerging arbovirus associated with several recent large-
scale epidemics. The 2005–2006 epidemic on Reunion island that resulted in approximately …

Alphaviruses, including Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), produce a transient illness in humans,
but severe forms leading to chronic incapacitating arthralgia/arthritis have been reported by …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging mosquito-borne alphavirus responsible for a
recent, unexpectedly severe epidemic in countries of the Indian Ocean region. Although …