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SUBMITTER: Thiberville SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7114207 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Antiviral research 20130628 3
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is the aetiological agent of the mosquito-borne disease chikungunya fever, a debilitating arthritic disease that, during the past 7years, has caused immeasurable morbidity and some mortality in humans, including newborn babies, following its emergence and dispersal out of Africa to the Indian Ocean islands and Asia. Since the first reports of its existence in Africa in the 1950s, more than 1500 scientific publications on the different aspects of the disease and its caus ...[more]