KEGG   DISEASE: Chikungunya fever
Entry
H01540                      Disease                                
Name
Chikungunya fever
  Supergrp
Mosquito-borne viral fever [DS:H00382]
Arthropod-borne viral fever [DS:H00383]
Description
Chikungunya fever is an infectious disease caused by Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an alphavirus in the Togaviridae family of +ssRNA viruses, and transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. CHIKV was first recognized as a human pathogen during the 1950s in Africa, but it may have caused outbreaks from as early as the 1700s.
Category
Viral infectious disease
Brite
Human diseases in ICD-11 classification [BR:br08403]
 01 Certain infectious or parasitic diseases
  Certain arthropod-borne viral fevers
   1D40  Chikungunya virus disease
    H01540  Chikungunya fever
Genome-based classification of infectious diseases [BR:br08401]
 Viral infections
  Infections caused by +ssRNA viruses
   H01540  Chikungunya fever
Pathogen
Chikungunya virus [GN:T40026]
Other DBs
ICD-11: 1D40
ICD-10: A92.0
MeSH: D065632
Reference
PMID:19663604
  Authors
Staples JE, Breiman RF, Powers AM
  Title
Chikungunya fever: an epidemiological review of a re-emerging infectious disease.
  Journal
Clin Infect Dis 49:942-8 (2009)
DOI:10.1086/605496
Reference
PMID:23811281
  Authors
Thiberville SD, Moyen N, Dupuis-Maguiraga L, Nougairede A, Gould EA, Roques P, de Lamballerie X
  Title
Chikungunya fever: epidemiology, clinical syndrome, pathogenesis and therapy.
  Journal
Antiviral Res 99:345-70 (2013)
DOI:10.1016/j.antiviral.2013.06.009
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