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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Prevalence of chronic chikungunya and associated risks factors in the French West Indies (La Martinique): A prospective cohort study.

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2020 Mar 12


PLoS Negl Trop Dis


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32163420?dopt=Abstract


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Prevalence of chronic chikungunya and associated risks factors in the French West Indies (La Martinique): A prospective cohort study.

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Prevalence of chronic chikungunya and associated risks factors in the French West Indies (La Martinique): A prospective cohort study.
Bertolotti A, Thioune M, Abel S, Belrose G, Calmont I, Césaire R, Cervantes M, Fagour L, Javelle É, Lebris C, Najioullah F, Pierre-François S, Rozé B, Vigan M, Laouénan C, Cabié A
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2020 Mar 12; 14(3):e0007327.
PMID: 32163420.

Abstract

The chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a re-emerging alphavirus that can cause chronic and potentially incapacitating rheumatic musculoskeletal disorders known as chronic chikungunya arthritis (CCA). We conducted a prospective cohort study of CHIKV-infected subjects during the 2013 chikungunya outbreak in Martinique. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of CCA at 12 months and to search for acute phase factors significantly associated with chronicity.
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