Chikungunya Virus and the Global Spread of a Mosquito-Borne Disease

Scott Weaver (1, 2) , Marc Lecuit (3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 2)

1 UTMB - The University of Texas Medical Branch
2 Global Virus Network
3 Biologie des Infections - Biology of Infection
4 UPD5 - Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5
5 Hôpital Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP]
6 Service des Maladies infectieuses et tropicales [CHU Necker]
7 Imagine - U1163 - Imagine - Institut des maladies génétiques (IHU)

Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne alphavirus; its name comes from a Makonde word describing the bent posture of persons with the severe arthralgia that is a hallmark of chikungunya fever, the disease caused by the virus.1 Chikungunya virus was first isolated after a 1952–1953 epidemic in present-day Tanzania. Outbreaks were subsequently identified in Asia during the 1950s and 1960s [...]

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Médecine humaine et pathologie; Maladies infectieuses; Maladies émergentes; Microbiologie et Parasitologie; Virologie

Scott Weaver, Marc Lecuit. Chikungunya Virus and the Global Spread of a Mosquito-Borne Disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 2015, 372 (13), pp.1231-1239. ⟨10.1056/NEJMra1406035⟩. ⟨pasteur-02452991⟩