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Travel-associated chikungunya acquired in Myanmar in 2019
- Marta Díaz-Menéndez1,2 , Elena Trigo Esteban1,2 , Mugen Ujiie3 , Guido Calleri4 , Camilla Rothe5 , Denis Malvy6 , Emanuele Nicastri7 , Alfred L Bissinger8 , Marc Grandadam9 , Jonathan D Alpern10 , Federico Gobbi11 , Patricia Schlagenhauf12 , Alexandre Duvignaud13 , Emilie Javelle14 , Takato Nakamoto15 , Spinello Antinori16 , Davidson H Hamer17
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 National Referral Unit for Imported Tropical Diseases. Department of Internal Medicine. Hospital Universitario La Paz-Carlos III, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain 2 These authors contributed equally to the work 3 Vaccination Support Center, Disease Control and Prevention Center. National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 4 Travel Medicine Unit. Amedeo di Savoia Hospital. ASL Città di Torino, Torino, Italy 5 LMU Hospital Centre, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Munich, Germany 6 Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, CHU de Bordeaux & INSERM 1219, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France 7 National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy 8 Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany 9 Arbovirus & Emerging viral diseases laboratory. Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Laos 10 Department of Travel and Tropical Medicine, HealthPartners; Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States 11 Department of Infectious /Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy 12 University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health, Zürich, Switzerland 13 Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, CHU de Bordeaux & INSERM 1219, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France 14 Laveran Military Teaching Hospital, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France 15 Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 16 Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “L Sacco”, University of Milan. Tropical Medicine Unit, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy 17 Department of Global Health and Boston University School of Public Health and Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United StatesMarta Díaz-Menéndezmarta.diazmenendez gmail.com
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Citation style for this article: Díaz-Menéndez Marta, Esteban Elena Trigo, Ujiie Mugen, Calleri Guido, Rothe Camilla, Malvy Denis, Nicastri Emanuele, Bissinger Alfred L, Grandadam Marc, Alpern Jonathan D, Gobbi Federico, Schlagenhauf Patricia, Duvignaud Alexandre, Javelle Emilie, Nakamoto Takato, Antinori Spinello, Hamer Davidson H. Travel-associated chikungunya acquired in Myanmar in 2019. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(1):pii=1900721. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.1.1900721 Received: 24 Nov 2019; Accepted: 09 Jan 2020
Abstract
Eighteen cases of chikungunya virus infection in travellers returning from Myanmar were reported to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, its subnetwork EuroTravNet and TropNet in 2019, reflecting an ongoing local outbreak. This report reinforces the importance of travellers as sentinels of emerging arboviral outbreaks and highlights the importance of vigilance for imported cases, due to the potential for dissemination of the virus into areas with competent local vectors and conducive environmental conditions.
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