1. Demographic and clinical characteristics of chikungunya patients from six Colombian cities, 2014–2015
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Elías Forero, Elías Quintero, Paula X. Pavía, Mario H. Cardiel, Francy Cuervo, Francisco Somoza, Jose Ignacio Angarita, Jesús Giovanny Ballesteros Muñoz, Ingris Peláez-Ballestas, John Londoño, Viviana Reyes-Martinez, Ana María Santos, Daniel Martin-Arsanios, Hugo Valencia, Eugenia Saldarriaga, R. Giraldo, Juan C. Rueda, and Diana Padilla
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Adult ,Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Adolescent ,Demographics ,Epidemiology ,viruses ,030106 microbiology ,Immunology ,Epidemic ,Colombia ,Antibodies, Viral ,medicine.disease_cause ,Microbiology ,Arbovirus ,Article ,Cohort Studies ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,Virology ,Environmental health ,parasitic diseases ,Drug Discovery ,medicine ,Humans ,Chikungunya ,Cities ,Aged ,Demography ,virus diseases ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,South America ,medicine.disease ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,030104 developmental biology ,Infectious Diseases ,Geography ,Chikungunya Fever ,Female ,Parasitology ,Chikungunya virus - Abstract
In 2014, the chikungunya virus reached Colombia for the first time, resulting in a nationwide epidemic. The objective of this study was to describe the demographics and clinical characteristics of suspected chikungunya cases. Chikungunya infection was confirmed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and 548 patients where included in the study. Of these patients, 295 were positive for antibodies against chikungunya (53.8%), and 27.6% (151/295) were symptomatic for chikungunya infection, with a symptomatic:asymptomatic ratio of 1.04:1. Factors associated with infection included low income and low socio-economic strata (odds ratio [OR]: 1.8; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.0–3.2, p = 0.003 and OR: 2.1; CI: 1.3–3.4, p = 0.002, respectively). Confirmed symptomatic cases were associated with symmetric arthritis (OR: 11.7; CI: 6.0–23.0, p
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- 2019
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