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- Title
Chikungunya Virus and Central Nervous System Infections in Children, India.
- Authors
Lewthwaite, Penny; Vasanthapuram, Ravi; Osborne, Jane C.; Begum, Ashia; Plank, Jenna L. M.; Shankar, M. Veera; Hewson, Roger; Desai, Anita; Beeching, Nick J.; Ravikumar, Ravi; Solomon, Tom
- Abstract
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus best known for causing fever, rash, arthralgia, and occasional neurologic disease. By using real-time reverse transcription-PCR, we detected CHIKV in plasma samples of 8 (14%) of 58 children with suspected central nervous system infection in Bellary, India. CHIKV was also detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of 3 children.
- Subjects
CHIKUNGUNYA; MOSQUITO vectors; FEVER; REVERSE transcriptase; POLYMERASE chain reaction; CENTRAL nervous system
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009, Vol 15, Issue 2, p329
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3201/eid1502.080902