Chikungunya virus.
Chikungunya causes chronic arthralgia and a nation wide large economic loss.
Using protein interactions we can find medical protein candidates to fight chikv using several techniques including bioinformatics.
What is Chikungunya ?
Chikungunya is a vector borne disease caused by chikungunya virus. Chikungunia causes severe joint pain and arthralgia. It can also progress to other body muscle and organs like liver and even brain causing meningoencephalitis.
Why is it important to stop the progress of Chikungunya ?
Chikungunia has a very fast mutation rate. Moreover it has already affected several countries with a significant load of disability-adjusted life years.
How does it spread and invade human body?
Chikungunia is spread by Aedes mosquitos. It enters human body cells after mosquito bites and uses the cell contents to multiply and colonise other body cells. On the right side is the life cycle of chikungunya virus :
What we can do ?
Chikungunya has become widespread many of times beyond our control. Apart from keeping our surrounding cleaner, there has been many research works pointing out the proteins in human body interacting with the virus proteins. In this site a database of those interacting proteins are given that can be used in making drugs and vaccine for further uses.
