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Chikungunya pronounced chik en gun ye is a viral disease caused by the Chikungunya virus Currently the virus is not indigenous to the continental United States US meaning that the virus. Msimang V.. 1. , Jansen van Vuren P.. 1. , Weyer . J.. 1. , Le Roux C.. 1. , Kemp, A.. 1. , Paweska J.T.. 1. 1. Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases,. National Institute for Communicable Diseases/NICD, Republic of South Africa (RSA). Serum specimens should be tested by an anti-Zika IgM assay**. Test appropriate specimen by Zika . RNA. PCR/NAT. Dengue***. Chikungunya***. Specimen positive for RNA patient . POSITIVE. for . dengue. To Register for the Monthly Disease Surveillance Trainings:. Contact your Service Surveillance HUB to receive monthly updates and reminders. Log-on or Request log-on ID/password: . https://tiny.army.mil/r/zB8A/CME. Announcements To Register for the Monthly Disease Surveillance Trainings: Contact your Service Surveillance HUB to receive monthly updates and reminders Log-on or Request log-on ID/password: https://tiny.army.mil/r/zB8A/CME Ryan Gill, MS4. Chikungunya - an emerging disease. Emerging infectious viral disease spread by mosquitos. Until the 2000s, was not known to exist in the Western hemisphere. Establishment in the US likely inevitable . Protein crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) allowed researchers to build a detailed atomic model of Mxra8 bound to CHIKV.. Results revealed Mxra8 molecular interactions with CHIKV spikes, and novel (head-to-head) arrangement of Mxra8 domains.. DE . DENGUE, CHIKUNGUNYA Y ZIKA. LUIS J. LUGO VÉLEZ M.D. J.D. LL.M. . FCLM. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR . PONCE HEALTH . SCIENCES UNIVERSITY. SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. ADJUNCT . FACULTY PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC . UNIVERSITY. 23. The causative agent of plague is. a) . Francisella . tularensis.. b) . Yersinia . pestis.. c) . Borrelia . burgdorferi.. d) . Rickettsia . prowazekii.. The causative agent of plague is. a) . (Assistant Professor) . Dept of Community Medicine . JNMC, AMU, Aligarh. Chikungunya. belong to . Togaviridae. . family. . Genetic Material- . Single strand . RNA . virus. Chikungunya. is a virus that is transmitted from . Division of Public Health. Background. Mosquito-borne emerging . arbovirus. . Closely related to dengue, yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis and West Nile viruses. First identified in Uganda in 1947. Information for the Public July 2014 Division of Infectious Disease Epidemiology 350 Capitol Street, Room 125, Charleston, WV 25301 - 3715 Phone: 304.558.5358 or (800) - 423 - 1271 Fax: 304.558.6335 66 Neki N. S*, Neeraj Joshi**, Gagandeep Singh Shergill**, Amritpal Singh**, Rajat Kharbanda**, Narinder Kumar Meena** * Professor, ** Junior Resident, *** Senior Resident, Department of Internal Med Bessaud M, Peyrefitte CN, Pastorino BA, Tock F, Merle O, Colpart J, et al. Chikungunya Virus Strains, Reunion Island Outbreak. Emerg Infect Dis. 2006;12(10):1604-1605. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1210.060596. Bozza FA, Moreira-Soto A, Rockstroh A, Fischer C, Nascimento AD, Calheiros AS, et al. Differential Shedding and Antibody Kinetics of Zika and Chikungunya Viruses, Brazil. Emerg Infect Dis. 2019;25(2):311-315. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2502.180166.