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Travel-associated chikungunya acquired in Myanmar in 2019.

  • Díaz-Menéndez M These authors contributed equally to the work.
  • Esteban ET These authors contributed equally to the work.
  • Ujiie M Vaccination Support Center, Disease Control and Prevention Center. National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Calleri G Travel Medicine Unit. Amedeo di Savoia Hospital. ASL Città di Torino, Torino, Italy.
  • Rothe C LMU Hospital Centre, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Munich, Germany.
  • Malvy D Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, CHU de Bordeaux & INSERM 1219, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
  • Nicastri E National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
  • Bissinger AL Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.
  • Grandadam M Arbovirus & Emerging viral diseases laboratory. Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Laos.
  • Alpern JD Department of Travel and Tropical Medicine, HealthPartners; Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States.
  • Gobbi F Department of Infectious /Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy.
  • Schlagenhauf P University of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Zürich, Switzerland.
  • Duvignaud A Department of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, CHU de Bordeaux & INSERM 1219, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
  • Javelle E Laveran Military Teaching Hospital, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.
  • Nakamoto T Disease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Antinori S Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences "L Sacco", University of Milan. Tropical Medicine Unit, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy.
  • Hamer DH Department of Global Health and Boston University School of Public Health and Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
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  • 2020-01-16
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  • Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin. - 2020
Chikungunya virus
Outbreak
surveillance
travel medicine
Adult
Aged
Arthralgia
Chikungunya Fever
Chikungunya virus
Disease Outbreaks
Exanthema
Female
Fever
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Mosquito Vectors
Myanmar
Sentinel Surveillance
Travel
English Eighteen cases of chikungunya virus infection in travellers returning from Myanmar were reported to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, its subnetwork EuroTravNet and TropNet in 2019, reflecting an ongoing local outbreak. This report reinforces the importance of travellers as sentinels of emerging arboviral outbreaks and highlights the importance of vigilance for imported cases, due to the potential for dissemination of the virus into areas with competent local vectors and conducive environmental conditions.
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