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SUBMITTER: Cha GW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3787532 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cha Go Woon GW Cho Jung Eun JE Lee Eun Ju EJ Ju Young Ran YR Han Myung Guk MG Park Chan C Jeong Young Eui YE
Osong public health and research perspectives 20130430 3
<h4>Objectives</h4>Chikungunya (CHIK) has been classified as a communicable disease group IV in South Korea since late 2010. Based on this, we investigated the extent of imported cases of CHIK in dengue-suspected individuals returning from dengue-endemic regions.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 486 dengue-suspected serum samples were screened for CHIK by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis. Further RT-PCR-positive samples were ...[more]