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 ...

The diagnostic test can detect all Chikungunya virus variants (or “genotypes”, including the West African, Asian and ECSA genotype), and contains a control positive sample (to reduce false positives) ...

many more with similar symptoms have not been tested since the testing facility is not widely available. Physicians fear that many of these untested patients may have chikungunya. It could also be ...

Chikungunya virus is transmitted by mosquitoes, most commonly Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the world's first vaccine ...

CDSCO releases draft standard evaluation protocols for issuing license for IVDs: Gireesh Babu, New Delhi Monday, January 6, 2025, 08:00 Hrs [IST] The Central Drugs Standard Contro ...

However, the patient tested negative for dengue, following which doctors advised a chikungunya test, which showed positive. Doctors are facing a critical challenge of identifying viral ...

In fact, many of the patients who were diagnosed with Chikungunya have revealed that the joint pains continue for months after they recover from the infection. Adding about the same in the caption ...

Chikungunya infections began to increase by the end of September 2022 in Paraguay, which declared on Feb. 24 that it was on alert due to the “atypical clinical and epidemiological behavior” of ...

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have jointly ...