Chikungunya risk for Brazil

This study aimed to show, based on the literature on the subject, the potential for dispersal and establishment of the chikungunya virus in Brazil. The chikungunya virus, a Togaviridae member of the genusAlphavirus, reached the Americas in 2013 and, the following year, more than a million cases were...

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Main Authors: Raimunda do Socorro da Silva Azevedo, Consuelo Silva Oliveira, Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-01-01
Series:Revista de Saúde Pública
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Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-89102015000100509&lng=en&tlng=en