Emerging Infectious Diseases (Oct 2017)

Dengue Virus Exported from Côte d’Ivoire to Japan, June 2017

  • Tetsuya Suzuki,
  • Satoshi Kutsuna,
  • Satoshi Taniguchi,
  • Shigeru Tajima,
  • Takahiro Maeki,
  • Fumihiro Kato,
  • Chang-Kweng Lim,
  • Masayuki Saijo,
  • Satoshi Kutsuna,
  • Kei Yamamoto,
  • Shinichiro Morioka,
  • Masahiro Ishikane,
  • Kayoko Hayakawa,
  • Yasuyuki Kato,
  • Norio Ohmagari

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2310.171132
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 10
pp. 1758 – 1760

Abstract

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Since April 2017, a dengue fever outbreak has been ongoing in Côte d’Ivoire. We diagnosed dengue fever (type 2 virus) in a traveler returning to Japan from Côte d’Ivoire. Phylogenetic analysis revealed strain homology with the Burkina Faso 2016 strain. This case may serve as an alert to possible disease spread outside Africa.

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