Open AccessShedding of Yellow Fever Virus From an Imported Case in the Netherlands After Travel to Brazil
Author(s) -
My V. T. Phan,
Mariana Mendonca Melo,
Els van Nood,
Georgina I. Aron,
Jolanda J.C. Voermans,
Marion Koopmans,
Chantal Reusken,
Corine H. GeurtsvanKessel,
Matthew Cotten
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
open forum infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2328-8957
DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofaa020
Subject(s) - yellow fever , virology , virus , medicine , yellow fever vaccine
We report yellow fever infection in a Dutch traveler returning from Brazil. Yellow fever virus (YFV) was identified in serum and urine samples over a period of 1 month. Yellow fever virus genome sequences from the patient clustered with recent Brazilian YFV and showed with limited nucleotide changes during the resolving infection.
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