Evaluation of the first commercial chikungunya virus indirect immunofluorescence test
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- 作者：Nadine Litzba ; Isabelle Schuffenecker ; Hervé ; Zeller ; Christian Drosten ; Petra Emmerich ; Remi Charrel ; Petra Kreher ; Matthias Niedrig
- 关键词：Chikungunya virus ; CHIKV ; Diagnostic ; Serology ; Indirect immunofluorescence test ; IIFT
- 刊名：Journal of Virological Methods
- 出版年：2008
- 出版时间：April 2008
- 年：2008
- 卷：149
- 期：1
- 页码：175-179
- 全文大小：239 K
文摘
The chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus of the genus Alphavirus, family Togaviridae, is mainly transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. It causes an acute infection, characterized by high fever, polyarthralgia and rash and was responsible for a major outbreak which started in 2005 and spread over many islands of the south western Indian Ocean before it hit the Indian subcontinent.