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Vaccination against chikungunya - a systematic review on the immunogenicity, tolerability, and safety of the live-attenuated vaccine (LAV) Ixchiq and the virus like particle (VLP) vaccine Vimkunya

Published on 07/04/2026 |  Original article (Full-text)  | Kling, Kerstin et al. | Vaccine 2026; 75(In progress): 128251 1 min.

Infections with the chikungunya virus are increasingly reported due to many reasons including climate change. Two vaccines against chikungunya have recently been approved in Europe, the live-attenuated vaccine (LAV) Ixchiq and the virus like particle (VLP) vaccine Vimkunya. However, no systematic review...

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Genomic insights into the re-emergence of chikungunya virus on Runion Island, France, 2024 to 2025.

Published on 02/09/2025 |  PubMed  | Frumence Etienne et al. | Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2025 Jun; 30(22) 2 min.

Chikungunya virus re-emerged on Réunion Island in August 2024, 18 years after a first major outbreak. Analysis of 173 genomes from the current epidemic reveals a monophyletic clade with mutations linked to adaptation to Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, including E1-A226V. Bayesian inference...

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Resurgence of chikungunya in the Indian Ocean Region in 2024-2025.

Published on 02/09/2025 |  PubMed  | Huits Ralph et al. | Journal of travel medicine 2025 Jun 2 min.

In the wake of a large outbreak in Reunion and Mayotte the GeoSentinel network has been signalling chikungunya cases among returning travellers acquired in multiple African and Asian countries between August 1st 2024 and June 10th 2025. These surveillance data suggest a resurgence of chikungunya in the...

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Chikungunya resurgence in the Maldives and risk for importation via tourists to Europe in 2019-2020: A GeoSentinel case series.

Published on 02/09/2025 |  PubMed  | Dudouet Pierre et al. | Travel medicine and infectious disease 2020 ; 36: 101814 2 min.

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is an arthropod-borne virus mainly transmitted in tropical areas by Aedes spp. mosquitoes. It has been responsible for small-to-large outbreaks in temperate areas including southern Europe and North America. Past outbreaks in 2006 on the islands of Maldives, as well as on other...

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Genomic surveillance of the Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) in Northeast Brazil after the first outbreak in 2014.

Published on 02/09/2025 |  PubMed  | Rodrigues Ayslany Melo et al. | Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 2020 ; 53: e20190583 2 min.

We performed an epidemiological surveillance of the Chikungunya (CHIKV) lineages in Bahia after the 2014 East/Central/South African (ECSA) genotype outbreak.Methods: Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), viral isolation, and phylogenetic analyses were conducted on serum samples from...

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