SEROPREVALENCE OF CHIKUNGUNYA INFECTION IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN MUMBAI

Pranali Medhekar; Nilma Hirani; Hemangi Ingale; Abhay Chowdhary

Volume : VIII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

SEROPREVALENCE OF CHIKUNGUNYA INFECTION IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL IN MUMBAI

Pranali Medhekar, Nilma Hirani, Hemangi Ingale, Abhay Chowdhary

Abstract :

Chikungunya is an arboviral infection, caused bychikungunya virus and is transmitted by Aedesaegypti mosquito.The most significant symptom consists of a painful arthralgia which may persist for months to years.

In a prospective study (September 2016 to March 2017) in a tertiary care hospital in Mumbai, a total of 418 sera from suspected Chikungunya cases were tested using the ChikungunyaIgM capture ELISA.

The seroprevalence of Chikungunya infection was 26.31%. Maximum positive cases, (73.63%) were among middle age group(15 to 45 years). Male to female ratio among positive cases was 0.96 with only slight preponderance of female cases.. All cases presented with fever followed by joint pain (95.5%),bodyache (89.09%), headache (80.9%), vomiting (7.27%) and rash (2.7%) in that order.

Chikungunya continues to remain an important health problem in our setup.