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. 2022 Nov 17;24(12):217–228. doi: 10.1007/s11908-022-00789-y

Table 2.

Clinical differences between dengue, chikungunya, and Zika virus infection [4, 62, 82•, 90••]

Chikungunya Dengue Zika
Incubation period (days) 1–12 3–14 1–12
Estimated proportion of infections that are asymptomatic (%) 25 75 50–80
Clinical
  Fever  +++  +++  + 
  Headache  +   +++  + 
  Retro-orbital pain  +   +++  + 
  Rash  +   +++  +++
  Conjunctivitis  +   ++   +++
  Arthralgia/arthritis  +++  +   + 
  Myalgia  ++  +++  ++
  Petechiae  +   +++  + 

+++ Indicates most likely/most frequent association