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INDIAN JOURNAL OF CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE
Volume 22, Issue 4, Pages 306-308Publisher
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DOI: 10.4103/ijccm.IJCCM_459_17
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Chikungunya; Epidermal necrosis; Guillain-Barre syndrome; Meningoencephalitis
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Chikungunya fever (CHIK) is an arboviral disease which is transmitted by a mosquito bite (Aedes aegypti). Fever, polyarthralgia, and maculopapular rash are hallmark clinical manifestations of this disease. These manifestations are self-liming and complete recovery is seen in most of the cases. However, atypical and lethal complications such as myocarditis, hepatitis, Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), and meningoencephalitis have been reported in few cases of CHIK. We hereby report two cases of chikungunya infection where rare and atypical manifestations of CHIK, i.e., GBS with bilateral lower motor facial nerve palsy, and meningoencephalitis with epidermal necrosis were seen.
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