Changing patterns of chikungunya virus: re-emergence of a zoonotic arbovirus
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Changing patterns of chikungunya virus: re-emergence of a zoonotic arbovirus.
Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are the causative agents of some of the most important emerging infectious diseases and are responsible for significant global public health problems (Gubler, 2001). Of these viruses, the genus Alphavirus belongs in the family Togaviridae, and the species in this genus cause diseases ranging from mild febrile illness to severe polyarthritis to encephalitis....
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of General Virology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-1317,1465-2099
DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.82858-0