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chikungunya virus infection.chikungunya virus (chikv) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus which causes epidemic fever, rash and polyarthralgia in africa and asia. two outbreaks have been reported in malaysia, in klang, selangor (1998) and bagan panchor, perak (2006). it is not known if the outbreaks were caused by the recent introduction of chikv, or if the virus was already circulating in malaysia. seroprevalence studies from the 1960s suggested previous disease activity in certain parts of the country. in asia, chikv is thoug ...200616898330
re-emergence of chikungunya virus in malaysia.an outbreak of chikugunya (chik) fever occurred among the fishing community in bagan pancor, perak. the outbreak was laboratory confirmed within 48 hours after the receipt of the specimens. fifty-three patients' serum samples were submitted for laboratory investigation and 47 (88.7%) were confirmed to be positive for chik infection by rt-pcr, and/or virus isolation, and/or in-house immunoflourescent test. rt-pcr and virus isolation were the tests of choice for patients with illness of four days ...200616898316
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