Abstract

DA PONTE ROJAS, María Noemí et al. Mucocutaneous manifestations of chikungunya fever. An. Fac. Cienc. Méd. (Asunción) [online]. 2023, vol.56, n.3, pp.89-94. ISSN 1816-8949.  https://doi.org/10.18004/anales/2023.056.03.89.

The typical manifestations of Chikungunya are fever and arthralgia in most cases, but we must remember that they present mucocutaneous manifestations, where the most frequent is rash, they can also present atypical mucocutaneous manifestations with great polymorphism simulating various dermatoses such as cases outlined above.

This report has 5 clinical cases from the month of January and February 2023 in the Central area of Paraguay, during the largest recorded Chikungunya epidemic in the country so far.

It is important to know them and correlate them with the other signs and symptoms of the disease for proper diagnosis and treatment.

Keywords : epidemic; Chikungunya fever; skin diseases..

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