Dengue virus infection in a traveller returning from Croatia to Germany

Schmidt-Chanasit, Jonas
Haditsch, M.
Schöneberg, Irene
Günther, Stephan
Stark, Klaus
Frank, Christina

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Publication date

October 2010

DOI

10.25646/642

Publisher

Robert Koch-Institut, Infektionsepidemiologie

Abstract

Dengue virus (DENV) is endemic in south-east Asia and Central to South America. In August 2010, a DENV infection was diagnosed in a German traveller returning from a trip to Croatia in south-east Europe. The patient presented with fever and other typical symptoms of DENV-infection. Virological investigation revealed the presence of DENV-specific IgM, a rise in DENV-specific IgG and the presence of DENV NS1 antigen in the patient’s blood