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First case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902
J M Heraud1, D Hommel, A Hulin
1Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana.
Emerging Infectious Diseases
|May 26, 1999
Abstract:
The first case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902 was reported in March 1998. The yellow fever virus genome was detected in postmortem liver biopsies by seminested polymerase chain reaction. Sequence analysis showed that this strain was most closely related to strains from Brazil and Ecuador.