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Outbreak of Chikungunya on Reunion Island: Early Clinical and Laboratory Features in 157 Adult Patients

Giannandrea Borgherini, P. Poubeau, F. Staïkowsky, M. Lory, Nathalie Le Moullec, J.Ph. Becquart, C. Wengling, Alain Michault, Fabrice Paganin

Clinical Infectious Diseases · 2007 · 511 citations · 21 references

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Abstract

Chikungunya virus can be responsible for explosive outbreaks of disease. Polyarthralgia and fever are the 2 main clinical features. In this era of travel and globalization, chikungunya should be considered in the differential diagnosis of febrile polyarthralgia with an abrupt onset.

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