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- Title
Fatal and mild primary dengue virus infections imported to Norway from Africa and south-east Asia, 2008-2010.
- Authors
Vainio, K; Noraas, S; Holmberg, M; Fremstad, H; Wahlstrøm, M; Anestad, G; Dudman, S
- Abstract
Between 2008 and 2010, eight cases of viraemic dengue fever in travellers were diagnosed in Norway. They had returned from Eritrea, Thailand and Indonesia. All cases were primary dengue infections, seven non-complicated dengue fever and one dengue shock syndrome with a fatal outcome. Four patients were infected with dengue virus serotype 1, one with type 2 and three with type 3. Two cases from Thailand, the fatal case and the two imported from Eritrea were infected with type 1.
- Publication
Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 38
- ISSN
1560-7917
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2807/ese.15.38.19666-en