Open AccessChikungunya Fever Among Patients with Acute Febrile Illness Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital in Mumbai
Author(s) -
Lata Galate,
Sachee Agrawal,
Jayanthi Shastri,
Vikram Londhey
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of laboratory physicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0974-7826
pISSN - 0974-2727
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2727.180787
Subject(s) - medicine , seroprevalence , chikungunya , dengue fever , virology , immunology , antibody , serology
Chikungunya fever (CHIK) is an arboviral disease. Dengue fever (DENG) and CHIK are indistinguishable clinically and need to be differentiated by laboratory investigations.