Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2019)

Dengue Virus Type 1 Infection in Traveler Returning from Tanzania to Japan, 2019

  • Kazuma Okada,
  • Ryo Morita,
  • Kazutaka Egawa,
  • Yuki Hirai,
  • Atsushi Kaida,
  • Michinori Shirano,
  • Hideyuki Kubo,
  • Tetsushi Goto,
  • Seiji P. Yamamoto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2509.190814
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 9
pp. 1782 – 1784

Abstract

Read online

The largest outbreak of dengue fever in Tanzania is ongoing. Dengue virus type 1 was diagnosed in a traveler who returned from Tanzania to Japan. In phylogenetic analysis, the detected strain was close to the Singapore 2015 strain, providing a valuable clue for investigating the dengue outbreak in Tanzania.

Keywords