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Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for diagnosis and trea...
Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Ranzolin,Aline; Dantas,Andrea Tavares; Cavalcanti,Nara GualbertoAbstract Chikungunya fever has become a relevant public health problem in countries where epidemics occur. Until 2013, only imported cases occurred in the Americas, but in October of that year, the first cases were reported in Saint Marin island in the Caribbean. The first autochthonous cases were confirmed in Brazil in September 2014; until epidemiological week 37 of 2016, 236,287 probable cases of infection w...
Recommendations of the Brazilian Society of Rheumatology for the diagnosis and ...
Marques,Claudia Diniz Lopes; Duarte,Angela Luzia Branco Pinto; Ranzolin,Aline; Dantas,Andrea Tavares; Cavalcanti,Nara GualbertoAbstract Chikungunya fever has become an important public health problem in countries where epidemics occur because half of the cases progress to chronic, persistent and debilitating arthritis. Literature data on specific therapies at the various phases of arthropathy caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection are limited, lacking quality randomized trials assessing the efficacies of different therapies. The...