Abstract
The Chinkunguya virus (CHIKV) is an arbovirus from the Togaviridae family, transmitted by the bite of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. Infections caused by CHIKV were first recorded in Tanzania in 1952, and in the last decade the virus has spread to more than 100 countries in the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia, including Brazil, where the number of cases has been increasing since the fir…