Chikungunya Virus

Chikungunya Virus- Vads Corner

Last Updated 4 February 2006

Latest Update News

Updates- When available

• WHO
  • Disease outbreaks reported
• ProMED-mail electronic conference Query Chikungunya virus
• ASEAN-Disease-Surveillance.net - includes bird flu updates from the ASEAN region.

Chikungunya Virus Related Information

• CDC
  • CDC Travel Information
  • Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases - Arbovirus
  • National Center for Infectious Diseases
• The Big Picture Book of Viruses:Togaviridae
• Arboviruses
• Travel Bug - Vector Borne Diseases
• Alphabetical List of Virus Names (Taxa)
• Chikungunya virus - Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
• Chikungunya fever: essential data
• Chikungunya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Alphaviruses (Togaviridae) and Flaviviruses (Flaviviridae)-Ch 54
• Chikungunya fever epidemic in Reunion Island (FR) - mid January 2006.

Articles

• Re-emergence of chikungunya and o’nyong-nyong viruses: evidence for distinct geographical lineages and distant evolutionary relationships: Ann M. Powers¹, Aaron C. Brault¹, Robert B. Tesh¹ and Scott C. Weaver¹Journal of General Virology (2000), 81, 471-479.
• Alphaviruses - Article by S.K. Lam and K.B. Chua, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus Reference and Research (DF/DHF), Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya.
• Article in Malaysian Medical Newsletter Cybermed column on Chikungunya virus.
• Preventing Emerging Infectious Diseases - A Strategy for the 21st Century (html); for pdf format
• Specific detection of chikungunya virus using a RT-PCR/nested PCR combination from Medscape.
• Vectors of Chikungunya Virus in Senegal : Transmission cycles Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. , 60 (2), p. 281-286pdf format
• Virtual Hospital - Immunizations and Chemoprophylaxis for Travel-Related Diseases
• Prevention and Treatment of Virus Diseases: Antiviral Vaccines
• Prevention and Treatment of Virus Diseases: Antiviral Drugs

• Principles of Immunisation

• Emerging and re-emerging viruses - An essay

• Globalization, International Law, and Emerging Infectious Diseases by David P. Fidler, J.D. Emerging Infectious Diseases Volume 2 .Number 2 April-June 1996.
• Emerging Infectious Diseases a peer reviewed journal
  • Resurgent Vector-Borne Diseases as a Global Health Problem

  • Emerging Viral Diseases of Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific; J.S. Mackenzie et al. Vol. 7, No. 3 Supplement Jun 2001.

MEDLINE abstracts (NLM PubMed).

Source: National Center For National Biotechnology Information(NCBI). When you read the MEDLINE (NLM PubMed) abstract click on Links: Related Articles.

• Search Chikungunya virus

Virology sites

• ALL the Virology on the WWW - The reference site for virology information.
• Virus Diseases at MIC-KIBIC at the Karolinska Institute.Another good site.
• Microbiology @ Leicester- Togaviruses
• WWW Sites of Interest - another excellent site. (Animal Sites)
• Molecular Virology
• Virus Reference Laboratory 
• Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center -Virus family
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)- Taxonomy; Genome; Structure

Communicable Disease Control, Surveillance and Other Resources

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Needs no introduction.
• Public Health Laboratory Service- UK's "CDC".
• CDC MMWR, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
• World Health Organisation (WHO).
• Emerging Infectious Diseases a peer reviewed journal.
• Infectious Diseases in Children - Journal.
• Emerging Infectious Diseases Resource Links - CDC.
• Health:Diseases and Conditions:Infectious Diseases - This site is indexed in Yahoo.

Medline Search Sites, Medical Journals Site and Search Engines

• Medline Search Sites - Do your own search for relevant articles.
• Medical Journal Sites - Look up relevant articles.
• Search Engines - Search the WWW.
• Search Microbiology and Immunology HomePage, Leicester University

  Deja News - Search articles and Newsgroups. Note the information obtained from Newsgroups are not moderated and should be interpreted with caution.

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First up in 5 August 2001.

Last Updated 4 February 2006