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Public health response to two imported, epidemiologically related cases of Lassa fever in the Netherlands (ex Sierra Leone), November 2019
- Femke Overbosch1 , Mark de Boer2 , Karin Ellen Veldkamp3 , Pauline Ellerbroek4 , Chantal P Bleeker-Rovers5 , Bram Goorhuis6 , Michele van Vugt6 , Annemiek van der Eijk7 , Tjalling Leenstra8 , Martin Khargi9 , Jeanette Ros10 , Diederik Brandwagt11 , Manon Haverkate12 , Corien Swaan12 , Chantal Reusken7,12 , Aura Timen12,13 , Marion Koopmans7 , Jaap van Dissel2,12 , Lassa fever response team of The Netherlands14
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Stichting BeroepsOpleiding Huisartsen (SBOH), Utrecht, the Netherlands 2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands 3 Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands 4 Department of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands 5 Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 6 Centre of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, location AMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 7 Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 8 Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 9 Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service Hollands Midden, Leiden, the Netherlands 10 Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service Kennemerland, Haarlem, the Netherlands 11 Department of Infectious Diseases, Public Health Service region Utrecht, Zeist, the Netherlands 12 National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Centre for Communicable Disease Control (CIb), Bilthoven, the Netherlands 13 Athena Institute, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands 14 The members of the Lassa fever response team of the Netherlands have been listed at the end of this articleCorrespondence:Aura Timenaura.timen rivm.nl
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Citation style for this article: Overbosch Femke, de Boer Mark, Veldkamp Karin Ellen, Ellerbroek Pauline, Bleeker-Rovers Chantal P, Goorhuis Bram, van Vugt Michele, van der Eijk Annemiek, Leenstra Tjalling, Khargi Martin, Ros Jeanette, Brandwagt Diederik, Haverkate Manon, Swaan Corien, Reusken Chantal, Timen Aura, Koopmans Marion, van Dissel Jaap, Lassa fever response team of The Netherlands. Public health response to two imported, epidemiologically related cases of Lassa fever in the Netherlands (ex Sierra Leone), November 2019. Euro Surveill. 2020;25(15):pii=2000265. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.15.2000265 Received: 06 Mar 2020; Accepted: 16 Apr 2020
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On 20 November 2019, Lassa fever was diagnosed in a physician repatriated from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands. A second physician with suspected Lassa fever, repatriated a few days later from the same healthcare facility, was confirmed infected with Lassa virus on 21 November. Comprehensive contact monitoring involving high- and low-risk contacts proved to be feasible and follow-up of the contacts did not reveal any case of secondary transmission in the Netherlands.
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Public health response to two imported, epidemiologically related cases of Lassa fever in the Netherlands (ex Sierra Leone), November 2019
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Public health response to two imported, epidemiologically related cases of Lassa fever in the Netherlands (ex Sierra Leone), November 2019.
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