Acute chikungunya virus infection and asthma.

Why Can We See a Local Spread of Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) Infection?

Chikungunya as a Cause of Acute Febrile Illness in Southern Sri Lanka

BACKGROUND Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) re-emerged in Sri Lanka in late 2006 after a 40-year hiatus. We sought to identify and characterize acute chikungunya infection (CHIK) in patients presenting with acute undifferentiated febrile illness in unstudied rural and semi-urban southern Sri Lanka in 2007. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We enrolled febrile patients ≥ 2 years of age, collected unifor...

Pregnant Women Hospitalized with Chikungunya Virus Infection, Colombia, 2015

In 2015 in Colombia, 60 pregnant women were hospitalized with chikungunya virus infections confirmed by reverse transcription PCR. Nine of these women required admission to the intensive care unit because of sepsis with hypoperfusion and organ dysfunction; these women met the criteria for severe acute maternal morbidity. No deaths occurred. Fifteen women delivered during acute infection; some r...

Reversal of periodic breathing after aerobic training in heart failure.

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Chikungunya Virus Infection and Acute Elevation of Serum Prostate-Specific Antigen

A man with prostate cancer on a regime of active surveillance had a laboratory-confirmed acute Chikungunya virus infection. The patient experienced a sudden increase in serum Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) during the acute illness that caused him anxiety and confounded interpretation of the PSA test. Six weeks after the onset of Chikungunya Fever symptoms, the elevated serum PSA returned to ba...