Giuseppe
Emeritus
[Source: EuroSurveillance.org, full text (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 18, 06 May 2010
Rapid communications
Infection with Mayaro virus in a French traveller returning from the Amazon region, Brazil, January, 2010
M C Receveur 1, M Grandadam 2, T Pistone 1, D Malvy 1
1. Travel clinics and Division of Tropical Medicine and Imported Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine and Tropical Diseases, H?pital St-Andr?, University Hospital Centre, Bordeaux, France
2. Centre national de r?f?rence des arbovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Citation style for this article: Receveur MC, 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)
ii=19563. Available online: (LINK)
Date of submission: 22 April 2010
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.
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Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 18, 06 May 2010
Rapid communications
Infection with Mayaro virus in a French traveller returning from the Amazon region, Brazil, January, 2010
M C Receveur 1, M Grandadam 2, T Pistone 1, D Malvy 1
1. Travel clinics and Division of Tropical Medicine and Imported Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine and Tropical Diseases, H?pital St-Andr?, University Hospital Centre, Bordeaux, France
2. Centre national de r?f?rence des arbovirus, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Citation style for this article: Receveur MC, 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)
ii=19563. Available online: (LINK) Date of submission: 22 April 2010
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.
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