Emerging Infectious Diseases (Aug 2020)

Dengue Virus Type 1 Infection in Traveler Returning from Benin to France, 2019

  • Toscane Fourié,
  • Léa Luciani,
  • Sophie Amrane,
  • Christine Zandotti,
  • Isabelle Leparc-Goffart,
  • Laetitia Ninove,
  • Antoine Nougairède

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2608.200055
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 26, no. 8
pp. 1946 – 1949

Abstract

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We investigated a case of dengue virus type 1 infection acquired in Benin. Phylogenetic analysis revealed the strain belongs to genotype V but clusters with Asian, rather than with known African, strains. Our finding suggests the introduction of Asian dengue virus in West Africa.

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