Emerging Infectious Diseases (May 2005)

Dengue Antibody Prevalence in German Travelers

  • Ole Wichmann,
  • Annekathrin Lauschke,
  • Christina Frank,
  • Pei-Yun Shu,
  • Matthias Niedrig,
  • Jyh-Hsiung Huang,
  • Klaus Stark,
  • Tomas Jelinek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1105.050097
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 5
pp. 762 – 765

Abstract

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We studied 2,259 German citizens after they returned from dengue-endemic countries from 1996 to 2004. Serotype-specific dengue antibodies indicated acute infections in 51 (4.7%) travelers with recent fever and 13 (1.1%) travelers with no recent fever, depending largely on destination and epidemic activity in the countries visited.

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