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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
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
outbreak of chikungunya due to virus of central/east african genotype in malaysia.chikungunya is an acute febrile illness caused by an alphavirus which is transmitted by infective aedes mosquitoes. two previous outbreaks of chikungunya in malaysia were due to chikungunya virus of asian genotype. the present outbreak involved two adjoining areas in the suburb of ipoh city within the kinta district of perak, a state in the northern part of peninsular malaysia. thirty seven residents in the main outbreak area and two patients in the secondary area were laboratory confirmed to be ...200718551938
molecular epidemiology of chikungunya virus in malaysia since its first emergence in 1998.malaysia experienced the first outbreak of chikungunya (chik) in klang in late 1998 due to chik virus of asian genotype. the chik virus of asian genotype reemerged causing outbreak in bangan panchor, perak in march 2006. chik virus of central/east african genotype was first detected from a patient who returned from india in august 2006. in december 2006, chik virus of central/east african genotype was re-introduced into malaysia from india and caused an outbreak in kinta district, perak but was ...201021265245
identification of chikungunya virus strains circulating in kelantan, malaysia in 2009.malaysia experienced its first outbreak of chikungunya virus (chikv) infection in late 1998 in klang district in selangor; six years later the virus re-emerged in the state of perak. all the chikv isolates in 1988 and 2006 shared high sequence similarities and belonged to the asian genotype. in 2007 and 2008 chikv infection again reemerged but the genotype was the central/east african genotype. this strain was found to be similar to the strains causing outbreaks in the india ocean. in 2009, the ...201021329313
epidemiology of chikungunya in malaysia: 2006-2009.this is a retrospective cross-sectional study based on the database of clusters of patients with clinical diagnosis of chikungunya (chik) that were referred to the national public health laboratory for diagnostic investigations from january 2006 to december 2009. of the 13,759 referred patients, a total of 6314 (45.9%) patients were laboratory confirmed to have chik and 7445 (54.1) patients were considered as clinical cases of chik by epidemiological link. epidemic curves plotted using date of o ...201021901945
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