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Chikungunya outbreak in Garo Hills, Meghalaya: An epidemiological perspective.
The Indian journal of medical research - 1 May 2015
Khan Siraj Ahmed, Dutta Prafulla, Topno Rashmee, Borah Jani, Chowdhury Purvita, Mahanta Jagadish
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BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Chikungunya (CHIK) fever is a mosquito-borne disease caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV). Chikungunya infection was first reported from India in 1963 from Kolkata. We report the serological and molecular evidence of an outbreak of chikungunya in northeast India that occurred in Tura, a hilly and forested terrain in Garo Hills district of Meghalaya. METHODS: Blood samples (3 ml) collected...
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