Emerging Infectious Diseases (Mar 2005)

Fever Screening at Airports and Imported Dengue

  • Pei-Yun Shu,
  • Li-Jung Chien,
  • Shu-Fen Chang,
  • Chien-Ling Su,
  • Yu-Chung Kuo,
  • Tsai-Ling Liao,
  • Mei-Shang Ho,
  • Ting-Hsiang Lin,
  • Jyh-Hsiung Huang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1103.040420
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 3
pp. 460 – 462

Abstract

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Airport fever screening in Taiwan, July 2003–June 2004, identified 40 confirmed dengue cases. Results obtained by capture immunoglobulin (Ig) M and IgG enzyme-linked immunoassay, real time 1-step polymerase chain reaction, and virus isolation showed that 33 (82.5%) of 40 patients were viremic. Airport fever screening can thus quickly identify imported dengue cases.

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