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Introduction: chikungunya virus was isolated in humans for the first time in 1952 after an epidemic in Tanzania, during 2023 the largest chikungunya epidemic occurred in Paraguay. Objective: to determine the most frequent oral manifestations self-reported by chikungunya-infected patients in a Paraguayan population group. Materials and methods: a cross-sectional observational study was carried out during September and October 2024, with research subjects who suffered from chikungunya. The instrument had two sections: the first covered the study information and sociodemographic data. The second section indicated the presence of any oral manifestation during the course of the disease, the options were catalogued in a dichotomous manner (“yes” or “no”), the subjects who indicated the presence of any oral manifestation also indicated its intensity (“mild”, “moderate” or “sev...
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