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Réunion chikungunya gendarmes comparative cohort (Marimoutou)
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Design notes & limitations. Comparative cohort of 85 CHIKV-infected vs 297 uninfected gendarmes assessed 30 months after the outbreak, with occupationally comparable unexposed controls and lower quality of life plus higher rheumatic, headache and fatigue morbidity in the infected. One of the strongest comparative symptom datasets in the chikungunya literature; per-symptom prevalence percentages are reported in the paper's tables (behind a subscription) and have not yet been extracted, so symptom_findings are intentionally empty pending full-text verification.
Identity & trigger
- Cohort id
marimoutou-2012-gendarmes- Aliases
- French military policemen chikungunya cohort
- Outbreak / event
- Réunion chikungunya outbreak 2005-06
- Pathogen
- Chikungunya virus (Virus)
- Exposure ascertainment
- serology
Design
- Design
- Retrospective cohort
- Denominator defined
- Yes
- Denominator method
- Occupational cohort of French gendarmes deployed on Réunion during the 2006 outbreak, classified by CHIKV serostatus; uninfected (CHIK-) gendarmes of the same force serve as an occupationally comparable unexposed group.
- Recruitment
- occupational
- Time zero
- Acute chikungunya infection during the 2006 Réunion outbreak (quarter)
- Control group
- Unexposed (unmatched)
Size & attrition
- Enrolled
- 382
- Analysed / enrolled
- 382/382 (100%)
- Max follow-up (months)
- 30
Biospecimens
- Specimens
- Yes
- Types
- serum
- Acute-phase specimens
- No
- Biobank
- Unknown
- External access
- Unknown
Observations (0)
No observations recorded yet — contributions welcome via pull request.
Publications
- Marimoutou C, Vivier E, Oliver M, Boutin JP, Simon F. (2012). Morbidity and impaired quality of life 30 months after chikungunya infection: comparative cohort of infected and uninfected French military policemen in Reunion Island. Medicine (Baltimore). PMID 22732952 · DOI 10.1097/MD.0b013e318260b604 primary
Provenance & verification
- Registration
- n/r
- Funders
- French Military Health Service
- Related cohorts
- telechik-reunion (Sibling analysis), schilte-2013-chikungunya-reunion (Sibling analysis)
- Symptom-inventory scope
- Targeted panel
- Last verified
- 2026-07-20 — OSMF research-tracker (web-verified against source)