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Euro Surveill. First case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection imported into Europe, November 2013
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 19, Issue 4, 30 January 2014
Rapid communications
First case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection imported into Europe, November 2013
D Tappe<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, J Rissland<SUP>2</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>, M Gabriel<SUP>1</SUP>, P Emmerich<SUP>1</SUP>, S G?nther<SUP>1</SUP>, G Held<SUP>4</SUP>, S Smola<SUP>2</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>, J Schmidt-Chanasit <SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP><SUP>,5</SUP>
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<SUP>1</SUP>Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany - 2 These authors contributed equally to this work - 3 Institute of Virology, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany - 4 Internal Medicine I, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany - 5 German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany
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Citation style for this article: Tappe D, Rissland J, Gabriel M, Emmerich P, G?nther S, Held G, Smola S, Schmidt-Chanasit J. First case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection imported into Europe, November 2013. Euro Surveill. 2014;19(4):pii=20685. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20685
Date of submission: 27 January 2014
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In November 2013, an acute Zika virus (ZIKV) infection was diagnosed in a German traveller returning from Thailand. The patient reported a clinical picture resembling dengue fever. Serological investigations revealed anti-ZIKV-IgM and -IgG, as well as ZIKV-specific neutralising antibodies in the patient?s blood. In Europe, viraemic travellers may become a source of local transmission of ZIKV, because Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Ae. aegypti (Linnaeus) are invasive mosquitoes and competent vectors for ZIKV.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 19, Issue 4, 30 January 2014
Rapid communications
First case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection imported into Europe, November 2013
D Tappe<SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP>, J Rissland<SUP>2</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>, M Gabriel<SUP>1</SUP>, P Emmerich<SUP>1</SUP>, S G?nther<SUP>1</SUP>, G Held<SUP>4</SUP>, S Smola<SUP>2</SUP><SUP>,3</SUP>, J Schmidt-Chanasit <SUP>1</SUP><SUP>,2</SUP><SUP>,5</SUP>
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<SUP>1</SUP>Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Arbovirus and Haemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research, Hamburg, Germany - 2 These authors contributed equally to this work - 3 Institute of Virology, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany - 4 Internal Medicine I, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany - 5 German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Hamburg-Luebeck-Borstel, Hamburg, Germany
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Citation style for this article: Tappe D, Rissland J, Gabriel M, Emmerich P, G?nther S, Held G, Smola S, Schmidt-Chanasit J. First case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection imported into Europe, November 2013. Euro Surveill. 2014;19(4):pii=20685. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/View...rticleId=20685
Date of submission: 27 January 2014
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In November 2013, an acute Zika virus (ZIKV) infection was diagnosed in a German traveller returning from Thailand. The patient reported a clinical picture resembling dengue fever. Serological investigations revealed anti-ZIKV-IgM and -IgG, as well as ZIKV-specific neutralising antibodies in the patient?s blood. In Europe, viraemic travellers may become a source of local transmission of ZIKV, because Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Ae. aegypti (Linnaeus) are invasive mosquitoes and competent vectors for ZIKV.
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