A definitive diagnosis of Chikungunya infection can be made only with the aid of laboratory support since clinically, symptoms resemble those of dengue fever. Laboratory diagnosis is therefore ...

Chikungunya is a disease that is caused by the chikungunya virus which is transmitted to humans by infected mosquitoes. Its name is derived from a word in the Makonde language that means contorted or ...

Infectious disease specialist, Natalia Laufer, is very conscious that tropical diseases transmitted by mosquitos, such as dengue, zika and chikungunya ... think syndromic PCR testing will be ...

Scientists at ICDDR'B have recently identified five cases among patient samples collected in 2023, representing the first ...

Recent advances in PCR amplification methods, which hold a great deal of promise for highly specific and sensitive virus detection assays, combine PCR amplification with fluorescently-labeled ...