Dengue, Chikungunya fever (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) are all transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and are currently circulating in Jamaica. Jamaica...
Dengue, Chikungunya fever (CHIKV) and Zika virus (ZIKV) are all transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito and are currently circulating in Jamaica. Jamaica...
Background: Chikungunya virus entered the Caribbean for the first time in 2013 and Jamaica experienced its maiden epidemic with Chikungunya fever in...
Background: Dengue fever is hyper-endemic in Jamaica with exponential rates of infection in successive outbreaks. The absence of local data and the...
Zika virus epidemic now involves 72 countries, worldwide. Transmission is multimodal through mosquito bites and blood and body fluids. ZIKV causes Guillain Barre...
Zika Virus is neurotropic. We report two children from the Caribbean Island of Grenada, a three-year-old with acute neuro-inflammation who had intractable seizures, meningo-enceph-alitis,...
Objective: Haemophilia is a congenital bleeding disorder characterized by partial or complete deficiency of a clotting factor VIII (FVIII) for Haemophilia A (HA), or factor IX (...
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) is a non-invasive vascular imaging technique. It can resolve the 3D morphology and structure of the circle of Willis when used in conjunction with three...
Objective: To describe the arthralgia post Chikungunya (ChikV) infection in patients referred to a rheumatology clinic at a tertiary hospital in Trinidad.
Methods...
Objective: To identify the types of skin disorders seen in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to establish the correlation, if any, between cutaneous manifestations, lupus...
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