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High rates of co-infection of Dengue and Chikungunya virus in Odisha and Maharashtra, India during 2013.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2015
Saswat Tanuja, Kumar Abhishek, Kumar Sameer, Mamidi Prabhudutta, Muduli Sagarika, Debata Nagen Kumar, Pal Niladri Shekhar, Pratheek B M, Chattopadhyay Subhasis, Chattopadhyay Soma
Abstract excerpt
Dengue viral (DENV) infection is endemic in different parts of India and because of similar primary signs and symptoms, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is mostly undiagnosed. Hence, we investigated 204 suspected Dengue cases in a hospital based cross-sectional study in Odisha, India in 2013. It was observed that 50 samples were positive for DENV only, 28 were positive for CHIKV only and interestingly, 28 patients were...
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