Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Unusual pattern of chikungunya virus epidemic in the Americas, the Panamanian experience.

PLoS neglected tropical diseases - 1 Feb 2017

Carrera Jean-Paul, Díaz Yamilka, Denis Bernardino, Barahona de Mosca Itza, Rodriguez Dennys, Cedeño Israel, Arauz Dimelza, González Publio, Cerezo Lizbeth, Moreno Lourdes, García Lourdes, Sáenz Lisseth E, Atencio María Aneth, Rojas-Fermin Eddy, Vizcaino Fernando, Perez Nicolas, Moreno Brechla, López-Vergès Sandra, Valderrama Anayansi, Armién Blas

Abstract excerpt

BACKGROUND: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) typically causes explosive epidemics of fever, rash and polyarthralgia after its introduction into naïve populations. Since its introduction in Panama in May of 2014, few autochthonous cases have been reported; most of them were found within limited outbreaks in Panama City in 2014 and Puerto Obaldia town, near the Caribbean border with Colombia in 2015. In order to confirm...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Antibodies, Viral
Share to Chikungunya Fever

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Chikungunya virus

Share to Cluster Analysis

Share to Epidemics

Share to Incidence

Share to Panama

Share to Viral Envelope Proteins

Source

Open in PubMed Open full text

Identifiers

PMID: 28222127
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005338
PMCID: PMC5336303

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 6 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-06.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 6 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Unusual pattern of chikungunya virus epidemic in the Americas, the Panamanian experience.PMID 28222127Read ↗

Chikungunya Virus Infection: First Detection of Imported and Autochthonous Cases in PanamaSemantic proximity Read ↗

Following in the Footsteps of the Chikungunya Virus in Brazil: The First Autochthonous Cases in Amapá in 2014 and Its Emergence in Rio de Janeiro during 2016Semantic proximity Read ↗

Epidemiological surveillance of chikungunya fever in Mexico since its introduction in 2014-2016 and identification of circulating genotypes.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Molecular Epidemiology of Dengue in Panama: 25 Years of CirculationSemantic proximity Read ↗

The burden of dengue fever and chikungunya in southern coastal Ecuador: Epidemiology, clinical presentation, and phylogenetics from the first two years of a prospective studySemantic proximity Read ↗

The reintroduction of DENV-2 in 2011 in Panama and subsequent outbreak characteristic.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Outbreak of Chikungunya virus in the north Caribbean area of Colombia: clinical presentation and phylogenetic analysisSemantic proximity Read ↗

Tracing the evolution of the chikungunya virus in Argentina, 2016-2023: independent introductions and prominence of Latin American lineages.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Epidemiologic and clinical investigations during a chikungunya outbreak in Rio Grande do Norte State, Brazil.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Increased number of cases of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection imported from the Caribbean and Central America to northern Italy, 2014.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Chikugunya and zika virus dissemination in the Americas: different arboviruses reflecting the same spreading routes and poor vector-control policiesSemantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic Diversity and Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Chikungunya Infections in Mexico during the Outbreak of 2014-2016.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.