Chikungunya fever (CHIKF) is a disease caused by the CHIK virus, which belongs to the family Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus [1]. Its main form of transmission is through bites from mosquitoes belonging to the species Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, which results in its classification as an arboviral disease. Other, less frequent forms of transmission have been reported in the literature, such as blood transfusion or vertical transmission from mother to foetus during pregnancy [2].CHIKF is an infectious and debilitating disease, and its main symptoms are high fever, skin rash, disabling polyarthralgia, myalgia, headache, fatigue, nausea and vomiting. It has three stages: The acute stage, which usually lasts from the first to the twenty-first day; the post-acute stage, from the twenty-first day until the end of the third month of the disease; and the chronic stage, which begins after three months of persistent joint complaints [3].Laboratory diagnosis can be performed through viral isolation, RT-PCR and/or serology; however, many patients