Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019

We report nine travellers with confirmed chikungunya virus infection, returning from tourist areas of Thailand to Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Romania, Israel and France, diagnosed in January and February 2019. These sentinel tourists support the intensification of chikungunya virus circ...

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Autores principales: Javelle, Emilie, Florescu, Simin-Aysel, Asgeirsson, Hilmir, Jmor, Shilan, Eperon, Gilles, Leshem, Eyal, Blum, Johannes, Molina, Israel, Field, Vanessa, Pietroski, Nancy, Eldin, Carole, Johnston, Victoria, Cotar, Ioana Ani, Popescu, Corneliu, Hamer, Davidson H, Gautret, Philippe
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30862335
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1900146
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author Javelle, Emilie
Florescu, Simin-Aysel
Asgeirsson, Hilmir
Jmor, Shilan
Eperon, Gilles
Leshem, Eyal
Blum, Johannes
Molina, Israel
Field, Vanessa
Pietroski, Nancy
Eldin, Carole
Johnston, Victoria
Cotar, Ioana Ani
Popescu, Corneliu
Hamer, Davidson H
Gautret, Philippe
author_facet Javelle, Emilie
Florescu, Simin-Aysel
Asgeirsson, Hilmir
Jmor, Shilan
Eperon, Gilles
Leshem, Eyal
Blum, Johannes
Molina, Israel
Field, Vanessa
Pietroski, Nancy
Eldin, Carole
Johnston, Victoria
Cotar, Ioana Ani
Popescu, Corneliu
Hamer, Davidson H
Gautret, Philippe
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description We report nine travellers with confirmed chikungunya virus infection, returning from tourist areas of Thailand to Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Romania, Israel and France, diagnosed in January and February 2019. These sentinel tourists support the intensification of chikungunya virus circulation in Thailand and highlight the potential for importation to areas at risk of local transmission.
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spelling pubmed-64155022019-04-11 Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019 Javelle, Emilie Florescu, Simin-Aysel Asgeirsson, Hilmir Jmor, Shilan Eperon, Gilles Leshem, Eyal Blum, Johannes Molina, Israel Field, Vanessa Pietroski, Nancy Eldin, Carole Johnston, Victoria Cotar, Ioana Ani Popescu, Corneliu Hamer, Davidson H Gautret, Philippe Euro Surveill Rapid Communication We report nine travellers with confirmed chikungunya virus infection, returning from tourist areas of Thailand to Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Romania, Israel and France, diagnosed in January and February 2019. These sentinel tourists support the intensification of chikungunya virus circulation in Thailand and highlight the potential for importation to areas at risk of local transmission. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2019-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6415502/ /pubmed/30862335 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1900146 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Javelle, Emilie
Florescu, Simin-Aysel
Asgeirsson, Hilmir
Jmor, Shilan
Eperon, Gilles
Leshem, Eyal
Blum, Johannes
Molina, Israel
Field, Vanessa
Pietroski, Nancy
Eldin, Carole
Johnston, Victoria
Cotar, Ioana Ani
Popescu, Corneliu
Hamer, Davidson H
Gautret, Philippe
Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019
title Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019
title_full Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019
title_fullStr Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019
title_full_unstemmed Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019
title_short Increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to Thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to Europe and the Middle East, early 2019
title_sort increased risk of chikungunya infection in travellers to thailand during ongoing outbreak in tourist areas: cases imported to europe and the middle east, early 2019
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6415502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30862335
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.10.1900146
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