Table 1.

Clinical, epidemiological and diagnostic features of cases of CHIKV infection in patients returning from the Caribbean and Americas to the Emilia-Romagna region, Italy, May–September 2014.

Case no.	Sex	Age, yr	Country visited	Period of stay	Clinical symptoms	Laboratory findings	Time to diagnosis (days)
1	F	42	Guadeloupe	25 Apr.–4 May	Fever, arthralgia, myalgia, rash, headache	CHIKV RNA+; IgM+; IgG-	7
2	M	50	Guadeloupe	25 Apr.–4 May	Fever, arthralgia, myalgia, asthenia, headache	CHIKV RNA-; IgM+; IgG+	7
3	F	53	Haiti	Apr.–14 May	Fever, arthralgia, rash, asthenia	CHIKV RNA-; IgM+; IgG+	13
4	F	35	Haiti	7 May–24 May	Fever, arthralgia, rash, asthenia, myalgia, headache, retro-orbital pain	CHIKV RNA-; IgM+; IgG+	9
5	F	54	Dominican Rep.	28 Apr.–30 May	Fever, arthralgia, rash, asthenia, myalgia, retro-orbital pain	CHIKV RNA-; IgM+; IgG+	n.a.
6	M	68	Haiti	26 May–5 June	Fever, arthralgia, rash, asthenia, myalgia,	CHIKV RNA+; IgM+; IgG+	9
7	M	62	Dominican Rep.	25 May–8 June	Fever, arthralgia, asthenia	CHIKV RNA+; IgM-; IgG-	2
8	M	67	Dominican Rep.	28 May–10 June	Fever, arthralgia, myalgia	CHIKV RNA+; IgM-; IgG-	4
9	F	8	Dominican Rep.	7 June–6 July	Fever, rash, headache	CHIKV RNA+; IgM-; IgG-	1
10	M	32	Dominican Rep.	17 June–27 June	Fever, arthralgia, myalgia, headache, asthenia	CHIKV RNA-; IgM+; IgG+	n.a.
11	F	40	Dominican Rep.	3 July–31 July	Fever, rash, retro-orbital pain, headache, arthralgia	CHIKV RNA-; IgM+; IgG+	26
12	M	34	Martinique	4 Aug.–17 Aug.	Fever, rash, asthenia, headache, retro-orbital pain	CHIKV RNA-; IgM+; IgG-	6
13	M	60	Puerto Rico	n.a.–18 Sept.	Fever, arthralgia, rash, myalgia	CHIKV RNA+; IgM-; IgG-	n.a.
14	M	21	Venezuela	11 Apr –18 Sept.	Fever, arthralgia, rash, asthenia, myalgia, headache	CHIKV RNA+; IgM-; IgG-	4

n.a., Not available.