Open AccessClinical profile of chikungunya patients during the epidemic of 2007 in Kerala, India
Author(s) -
K. Vijayakumar,
Thekkumkara Surendran Nair Anish,
Biju George,
Tony Lawrence,
Sujina Cheraparambil Muthukkutty,
Reshmi Ramachandran
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/0974-777x.83526
Subject(s) - chikungunya , medicine , epidemiology , context (archaeology) , cluster (spacecraft) , pediatrics , pandemic , disease , covid-19 , outbreak , virology , geography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , archaeology , computer science , programming language
The association of the present Chikungunya pandemic with a mutation in the Chik virus is already established in many parts of the world, including Kerala. Kerala was one of the worst-affected states of India in the Chikungunya epidemic of 2006-2007. It is important to discuss the clinical features of patients affected by Chikungunya fever in the context of this change in the epidemiology of the disease.