Carlos Eduardo Jiménez-Canizales

TL;DR: These estimates raise concerns about the effects of continued CHIK spread in Colombia and other Latin-American countries and suggest that there will be significant acute and chronic disability and related costs in the short and long term for Latin American health care systems.

TL;DR: Four well documented fatal cases of Zika virus infection in Tolima, Colombia are described and RT-PCR for dengue fever, anti-dengue IgM, and NS1 ELISA and western-blot tests were negative.

TL;DR: Post-chikungunya chronic arthralgia: results from a retrospective follow-up study of 131 cases in Tolima, Colombia, Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2015.09.001.

TL;DR: The severity and endotype signatures indicate that distinct immune signatures precede the onset of severe sepsis and lethality, providing a method to triage early septic patients as mentioned in this paper .

TL;DR: Nearly half of patients with CHIK had at least one rheumatologic symptom persistent over a year, and the third of them, pCHIK-CPA, is consistent with previous estimates obtained in other cohorts in the country and are consistent with results from other studies in France and India.