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COVID-19 Masquerading as Chikungunya Fever

Waqas Ullah1, Andrew Tran1, Sohaib Roomi1, Rehan Saeed1 and Usman Sarwar1
  • 1 Abington Jefferson Health, United States

Abstract

The COVID-19 outbreak is an unprecedented global public health challenge. It has a myriad of clinical presentations including fever, cough, vomiting, and diarrhea. Here, we present a unique case of COVID-19, with an atypical presentation of arthralgias and false-positive results for the chikungunya virus. By highlighting the importance of this rare association, we want physicians to be vigilant in the time of this pandemic and to have a high suspicion for this novel disease.

American Journal of Infectious Diseases
Volume 16 No. 2, 2020, 73-76

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajidsp.2020.73.76

Submitted On: 8 April 2020 Published On: 14 May 2020

How to Cite: Ullah, W., Tran, A., Roomi, S., Saeed, R. & Sarwar, U. (2020). COVID-19 Masquerading as Chikungunya Fever. American Journal of Infectious Diseases, 16(2), 73-76. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajidsp.2020.73.76

Open AccessCopyright: © 2020 Waqas Ullah, Andrew Tran, Sohaib Roomi, Rehan Saeed and Usman Sarwar. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • CHIKV