Chikungunya fever in two German tourists returning from the Maldives, September, 2009

M Pfeffer; I Hanus; T Löscher; T Homeier; G Dobler

doi:10.2807/ese.15.13.19531-en

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Chikungunya fever in two German tourists returning from the Maldives, September, 2009
M Pfeffer¹ , I Hanus² , T Löscher² , T Homeier¹ , G Dobler³
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Affiliations: ¹ Institute of Animal Hygiene and Veterinary Public Health, Veterinary Faculty, University of Leipzig, Germany ² Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, University of Munich, Munich, Germany ³ Bundeswehr Institute of Microbiology, Munich, Germany

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M Pfeffer
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Citation style for this article: Pfeffer M, Hanus I, Löscher T, Homeier T, Dobler G. Chikungunya fever in two German tourists returning from the Maldives, September, 2009. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(13):pii=19531. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.13.19531-en Received: 01 Apr 2010

Abstract

This report describes the first isolation and molecular characterisation of a chikungunya virus from two German tourists who became ill after a visit to the Maldives in September 2009. The virus contained the E1 A226V mutation, shown to be responsible for an adaptation to the Asian tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus. The E1 coding sequence was identical to chikungunya virus isolates from Sri Lanka and showed three nt-mismatches to the only available E1 nt sequence from the Maldives.