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Cardona-Ospina, J.A., Vera-Polania, F. & Rodriguez-Morales, A.J. Chikungunya or not, differential diagnosis and the importance of laboratory confirmation for clinical and epidemiological research: comment on the article by Rosario et al.. Clin Rheumatol 35, 829–830 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-015-2995-x
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