TY - JOUR AU - Lewthwaite, Penny AU - Vasanthapuram, Ravi AU - Osborne, Jane C. AU - Begum, Ashia AU - Plank, Jenna L.M. AU - Shankar, M. Veera AU - Hewson, Roger AU - Desai, Anita AU - Beeching, Nick J. AU - Ravikumar, Ravi AU - Solomon, Tom T1 - Chikungunya Virus and Central Nervous System Infections in Children, India T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2009 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 329 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a mosquito-borne alphavirus best known for causing fever, rash, arthralgia, and occasional neurologic disease. By using real-time reverse transcription–PCR, we detected CHIKV in plasma samples of 8 (14%) of 58 children with suspected central nervous system infection in Bellary, India. CHIKV was also detected in the cerebrospinal fluid of 3 children. KW - chikungunya virus KW - central nervous system viral diseases KW - polymerase chain reaction KW - incidence KW - Japanese encephalitis vaccines KW - encephalitis KW - Japanese KW - dispatch KW - India DO - 10.3201/eid1502.080902 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/15/2/08-0902_article ER - End of Reference