Since April 2017, a dengue fever outbreak has been ongoing in Côte d'Ivoire. We diagnosed dengue fever (type 2 virus) in a traveler returning to Japan from Côte d'Ivoire. Phylogenetic analysis revealed strain homology with the Burkina Faso 2016 strain. This case may serve as an alert to possible disease spread outside Africa.
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5621529 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2310.171132 | DOI Listing |
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