Yellow Fever in an Unvaccinated Traveler to Peru

We present a case of an unvaccinated traveler who traveled from New York to Peru and contracted yellow fever. He likely acquired the infection while visiting the Amazon River, with a point of exit of Lima, Peru. Our case illustrates the dramatic course that yellow fever may take, as well as the impo...

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Autores principales: Winnicka, Lydia, Abdullah, Amirahwaty, Yang, Tsujung, Norville, Kim, Irizarry-Acosta, Melina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5740984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29308400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx205
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author Winnicka, Lydia
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Yang, Tsujung
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description We present a case of an unvaccinated traveler who traveled from New York to Peru and contracted yellow fever. He likely acquired the infection while visiting the Amazon River, with a point of exit of Lima, Peru. Our case illustrates the dramatic course that yellow fever may take, as well as the importance of pretravel vaccination.
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spelling pubmed-57409842018-01-05 Yellow Fever in an Unvaccinated Traveler to Peru Winnicka, Lydia Abdullah, Amirahwaty Yang, Tsujung Norville, Kim Irizarry-Acosta, Melina Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report We present a case of an unvaccinated traveler who traveled from New York to Peru and contracted yellow fever. He likely acquired the infection while visiting the Amazon River, with a point of exit of Lima, Peru. Our case illustrates the dramatic course that yellow fever may take, as well as the importance of pretravel vaccination. Oxford University Press 2017-12-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5740984/ /pubmed/29308400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx205 Text en © The Author(s) 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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