Chikungunya on Kidney Transplant Recipients

Bruno Tavares,Paula Frassinetti Castelo Branco Camurça Fernandes,Claudia Maria Costa de Oliveira,Sônia Leite da Silva,Márcia Uchoa Mota,Tacilla Hanny de Souza Andrade,Samuel Cunha,Evelyne Santana Girão

Chikungunya on Kidney Transplant Recipients

2019

Bruno Tavares
Paula Frassinetti Castelo Branco Camurça Fernandes
Claudia Maria Costa de Oliveira
Sônia Leite da Silva
Márcia Uchoa Mota
Tacilla Hanny de Souza Andrade
Samuel Cunha
Evelyne Santana Girão

BackgroundChikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection is an acute febrile illness with polyarthralgia and arthritis. There are few data about CHIKV infection in kidney transplant recipients (KTR). We report the largest case series of CHIKV infection in this population.MethodsWe retrospectively analyzed 32 c

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Virus
Immunology
Chikungunya
Arthritis
Kidney
Diabetes mellitus
Medicine

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