COVID-19 Masquerading as Chikungunya Fever
- 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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajidsp.2020.73.76
Copyright: © 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