Infection with Mayaro virus in a French traveller returning from the Amazon region, Brazil, January, 2010

M C Receveur; M Grandadam; T Pistone; D Malvy

doi:10.2807/ese.15.18.19563-en

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Infection with Mayaro virus in a French traveller returning from the Amazon region, Brazil, January, 2010
M C Receveur¹ , M Grandadam² , T Pistone¹ , D Malvy¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Travel clinics and Division of Tropical Medicine and Imported Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Hôpital St-André, University Hospital Centre, Bordeaux, France ² Centre national de référence des arbovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

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D Malvy
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Citation style for this article: Receveur M C, Grandadam M, Pistone T, Malvy D. Infection with Mayaro virus in a French traveller returning from the Amazon region, Brazil, January, 2010. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(18):pii=19563. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.15.18.19563-en Received: 22 Apr 2010

Abstract

Mayaro virus (MAYV) disease is a mosquito-borne zoonosis endemic in humid forests of tropical South America. MAYV is closely related to other alphaviruses that produce a dengue-like illness accompanied by long-lasting arthralgia. A French tourist developed high-grade fever and severe joint manifestations following a 15-day trip in the Amazon basin, Brazil, and was diagnosed with MAYV infection in January 2010. This case is the first reported in a traveller returning from an endemic South American country to Europe.