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Co-circulation and simultaneous co-infection of dengue, chikungunya, and zika viruses in patients with febrile syndrome at the Colombian-Venezuelan border.
BMC infectious diseases - 30 Jan 2018
Carrillo-Hernández Marlen Yelitza, Ruiz-Saenz Julian, Villamizar Lucy Jaimes, Gómez-Rangel Sergio Yebrail, Martínez-Gutierrez Marlen
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: In Colombia, the dengue virus (DENV) has been endemic for decades, and with the recent entry of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) (2014) and the Zika virus (ZIKV) (2015), health systems are overloaded because the diagnosis of these three diseases is based on clinical symptoms, and the three diseases share a symptomatology of febrile syndrome. Thus, the objective of this study was to use molecular methods...
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