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ZIKV is a mosquito-borne RNA virus of the Flaviviridae family causing a dengue fever -like syndrome in humans
The first indigenous infection in New Caledonia was recently reported suggesting the spread of ZIKV, as 26 imported cases of ZIKV infection from French Polynesia have been observed in this territory [19]
This report constitutes, to the best of our knowledge, the first laboratory-confirmed case of a ZIKV infection imported into Europe
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Citation style for this article: Tappe D, Rissland J, Gabriel M, Emmerich P, Günther S, Held G, Smola S, Schmidt-Chanasit J. First case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection imported into Europe, November 2013. In November 2013, an acute Zika virus (ZIKV) infection was diagnosed in a German traveller returning from Thailand. The patient reported a clinical picture resembling dengue fever. Serological investigations revealed anti-ZIKV-IgM and -IgG, as well as ZIKVspecific neutralising antibodies in the patient’s blood. In Europe, viraemic travellers may become a source of local transmission of ZIKV, because Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Ae. aegypti (Linnaeus) are invasive mosquitoes and competent vectors for ZIKV. We report the clinical and laboratory findings of a Zika virus (ZIKV) infection imported into Europe by a German traveller from Thailand, in winter of 2013
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