DISEASE: Chikungunya fever

Entry

H01540                      Disease

Name

Chikungunya fever

Supergrp

Mosquito-borne viral fever [DS:H00382]
Arthropod-borne viral fever [DS:H00383]

Description

Chikungunya fever is an infectious disease caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. CHIKV was first recognized as a human pathogen during the 1950s in Africa, but it may have caused outbreaks from as early as the 1700s.

Category

Infectious disease

Brite

Infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
Viral infections
  Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
   H01540  Chikungunya fever
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
   1D40  Chikungunya virus disease
    H01540  Chikungunya fever

Pathogen

Chikungunya virus [GN:T40026]

Other DBs

ICD-11:

1D40

ICD-10:

A92.0

MeSH:

D065632

Reference

PMID:19663604

Authors

Staples JE, Breiman RF, Powers AM

Title

Chikungunya fever: an epidemiological review of a re-emerging infectious disease.

Journal

Clin Infect Dis 49:942-8 (2009)
DOI:10.1086/605496

Reference

PMID:23811281

Authors

Thiberville SD, Moyen N, Dupuis-Maguiraga L, Nougairede A, Gould EA, Roques P, de Lamballerie X

Title

Chikungunya fever: epidemiology, clinical syndrome, pathogenesis and therapy.

Journal

Antiviral Res 99:345-70 (2013)
DOI:10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.06.009

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