Encephalitis from Chikungunya Virus: An Increasingly Recognized Syndrome.

Encephalitis from Chikungunya Virus: An Increasingly Recognized Syndrome.

Watkins Richard R

Infectious Disease Alert

2016

2016-01

The article focuses on the retrospective cohort study of the outbreak of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) which causes the encephalitis and the central nervous system (CNS) involvement after a large CHIKV outbreak that occurred on Reunion Island between September 2005 and June 2006. It mentions that CHIKV infection shows the neurological symptoms such as lumbar puncture with a positive cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) and the CHIKV can cause severe neurological disease.

Aged; Incidence; Infant; Age Factors; France; Chikungunya Virus; Chikungunya Fever – Complications; Encephalitis – Epidemiology – France; Encephalitis – Etiology; Encephalitis – Risk Factors

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