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Arboviral and other illnesses in travellers returning from Brazil, June 2013 to May 2016: implications for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Philippe Gautret1 , Frank Mockenhaupt2 , Martin P Grobusch3 , Camilla Rothe4 , Frank von Sonnenburg5 , Perry J van Genderen6 , Francois Chappuis7 , Hilmir Asgeirsson8 , Eric Caumes9 , Emmanuel Bottieau10 , Denis Malvy11 , Rogelio Lopez-Vélez12 , Mogens Jensenius13 , Carsten Schade Larsen14 , Francesco Castelli15,16 , Christophe Rapp17 , Vanessa Field18 , Israel Molina19 , Effrossyni Gkrania-Klotsas20 , Simin Florescu21 , David Lalloo22,23 , Patricia Schlagenhauf24
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 University Hospital Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France 2 Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany 3 Centre for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 4 University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Bernhard Nocht Clinic, Hamburg, Germany 5 Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilian’s University of Munich, Munich, Germany 6 Institute for Tropical Disease, Harbour Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 7 Division of Tropical and Humanitarian Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland 8 Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 9 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hôpital Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France 10 Department of Clinical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium 11 Department of Internal Medicine and Tropical Disease, University Hospital Centre, Bordeaux, France 12 Tropical Medicine and Clinical Parasitology, Infectious Diseases Department, Ramón y Cajal Hospital, Madrid, Spain 13 Department of Infectious Diseases, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway 14 Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark 15 University Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy 16 Brescia Spedali Civili General Hospital, Brescia, Italy 17 Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Hôpital Bégin, Saint-Mandé, France. 18 InterHealth Worldwide and National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC), London, United Kingdom 19 Tropical Medicine Unit Drassanes-Vall d'Hebron, PROSICS Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain 20 Department of Infectious Diseases, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom 21 Dr. Victor Babes Clinical Hospital for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Bucharest, Romania 22 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom 23 National Institute for Health Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, Liverpool, United Kingdom 24 University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, Zürich, SwitzerlandPhilippe Gautretphilippe.gautret club-internet.fr
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Citation style for this article: Gautret Philippe, Mockenhaupt Frank, Grobusch Martin P, Rothe Camilla, von Sonnenburg Frank, van Genderen Perry J, Chappuis Francois, Asgeirsson Hilmir, Caumes Eric, Bottieau Emmanuel, Malvy Denis, Lopez-Vélez Rogelio, Jensenius Mogens, Larsen Carsten Schade, Castelli Francesco, Rapp Christophe, Field Vanessa, Molina Israel, Gkrania-Klotsas Effrossyni, Florescu Simin, Lalloo David, Schlagenhauf Patricia. Arboviral and other illnesses in travellers returning from Brazil, June 2013 to May 2016: implications for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Euro Surveill. 2016;21(27):pii=30278. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2016.21.27.30278 Received: 24 Jun 2016; Accepted: 06 Jul 2016
Abstract
We evaluated EuroTravNet (a GeoSentinel subnetwork) data from June 2013 to May 2016 on 508 ill travellers returning from Brazil, to inform a risk analysis for Europeans visiting the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil. Few dengue fever cases (n = 3) and no cases of chikungunya were documented during the 2013–15 Brazilian winter months, August and September, the period when the Games will be held. The main diagnoses were dermatological (37%), gastrointestinal (30%), febrile systemic illness (29%) and respiratory (11%).
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