Abstract
In late February-early April 2010, five cases of dengue fever were diagnosed in returning travellers in Europe in EurotravNet sites in Sweden and France in patients with travel history to the Comoros and/or Zanzibar, Tanzania. Four cases were non-complicated dengue fever and one case dengue hemorrhagic fever. Three patients were viraemic at the time of diagnosis and infected with Dengue type 3 virus.
Highlights
In late February-early April 2010, five cases of dengue fever were diagnosed in returning travellers in Europe in EurotravNet sites in Sweden and France in patients with travel history to the Comoros and/or Zanzibar, Tanzania
In 2010, five cases of dengue fever including one case of dengue haemorrhagic fever, have been reported from EurotravNet sites in France and Sweden, in four travellers returning from the Comoros and one traveller returning from Zanzibar, Tanzania
Six autochthonous cases of dengue fever were recently identified in the Comoros (March 2010)
Summary
Dengue type 3 virus infections in European travellers returning from the Comoros and Zanzibar, FebruaryApril 2010. Citation style for this article: Citation style for this article: Gautret P, Simon F, Hervius Askling H, Bouchaud O, Leparc-Goffart I, Ninove L, Parola P, for EuroTravNet. Dengue type 3 virus infections in European travellers returning from the Comoros and Zanzibar, February-April 2010. In late February-early April 2010, five cases of dengue fever were diagnosed in returning travellers in Europe in EurotravNet sites in Sweden and France in patients with travel history to the Comoros and/or Zanzibar, Tanzania. In 2010 (until 14 April), five cases of dengue fever including one case of dengue haemorrhagic fever, have been reported from EurotravNet sites in France and Sweden, in four travellers returning from the Comoros and one traveller returning from Zanzibar, Tanzania. EurotravNet, the Network for travel medicine and tropical diseases of the European Centre for Disease Control consists of 14 core sites in nine European countries and participants monitor travel related infectious diseases in Europe (www.eurotravnet.eu)
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