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Arbovirus Infections As Screening Tools for the Identification of Viral Immunomodulators and Host Antiviral Factors
Published on: September 13, 2018
Arboviral and other illnesses in travellers returning from Brazil, June 2013 to May 2016: implications for the 2016
Philippe Gautret1, Frank Mockenhaupt, Martin P Grobusch
1University Hospital Institute for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France.
Abstract:
We evaluated EuroTravNet (a GeoSentinel subnetwork) data from June 2013 to May 2016 on 508 ill travellers returning from Brazil, to inform a risk analysis for Europeans visiting the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil. Few dengue fever cases (n = 3) and no cases of chikungunya were documented during the 2013-15 Brazilian winter months, August and September, the period when the Games will be held. The main diagnoses were dermatological (37%), gastrointestinal (30%), febrile systemic illness (29%) and respiratory (11%).
