Chikungunya virus as a trigger for different renal disorders: an exploratory study.
Denise Maria do Nascimento CostaCarlos Eduardo MachadoPrecil Diego NevesDyego José BritoSamira OiFlávio Henrique BarrosLuiz Tadeu FigueiredoStanley Almeida AraujoFrancisco LadchumananandasivamMarlene Antônia Dos ReisWeverton LuchiJoyce LagesNatalino Salgado FilhoLuiz Fernando OnuchicAngela Luzia DuarteClaudia Diniz Lopes MarquesMaria Rosângela Cunha Duarte CoêlhoCamila OliveiraGisele VajgelMaria Alina CavalcanteLucila ValenteVera MagalhãesGyl Eanes Barros SilvaPublished in: Journal of nephrology (2022)
Several histopathological features were found after chikungunya fever, without virus detection in renal tissue. These findings suggest that chikungunya virus may trigger kidney lesions with varying degrees of severity at different stages of infection. However, the probability that this virus replicates in the renal tissue seems unlikely.
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