Intensive Care Admissions for Severe Chikungunya Virus Infection, French Polynesia

During the 2014–2015 chikungunya outbreak in French Polynesia, 64 patients with confirmed chikungunya virus infection were admitted into intensive care. Sixty-three were nonpregnant adults; 11 had an atypical form, 21 had severe sepsis or septic shock, and 18 died. These findings indicate that critical illness frequently complicates the course of chikungunya virus infection.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid2404.161536PMID 29553334PMCID 5875279
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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