Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8754391 | Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine | 2016 | 14 Pages |
Abstract
Infectious diseases are indeed a lifelong threat to everyone irrespective of age, sex, lifestyle and socio-economic status. The infectious diseases have persisted among the prominent causes of death globally. Recently, re-emergence of Chikungunya viral infection harmed many in Asian and African countries. Chikungunya was considered as a major threat in developing and under-developed countries; the recent epidemiological outbreak of Chikungunya in La Reunion urges the global researchers to develop effective vaccine against this viral disease. In this review, Chikungunya, pathogenesis and epidemiology were briefly described.
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Authors
Shanmugaraj Bala Murugan, Ramalingam Sathishkumar,