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ArticleEuro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin2020

Travel-associated chikungunya acquired in Myanmar in 2019.

Marta Díaz-Menéndez, Elena Trigo Esteban, Mugen Ujiie, Guido Calleri, Camilla Rothe, Denis Malvy, Emanuele Nicastri, Alfred L Bissinger, Marc Grandadam, Jonathan D Alpern and 7 more

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Article in Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. GeoSentinel: past, present and future†.Journal of travel medicine · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors.

Marta Díaz-MenéndezNational Referral Unit for Imported Tropical Diseases. Department of Internal Medicine. Hospital Universitario La Paz-Carlos III, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Elena Trigo EstebanNational Referral Unit for Imported Tropical Diseases. Department of Internal Medicine. Hospital Universitario La Paz-Carlos III, IdiPAZ, Madrid, Spain.
Mugen UjiieVaccination Support Center, Disease Control and Prevention Center. National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Guido CalleriTravel Medicine Unit. Amedeo di Savoia Hospital. ASL Città di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Camilla RotheLMU Hospital Centre, Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Munich, Germany.
Denis MalvyDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, CHU de Bordeaux & INSERM 1219, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Emanuele NicastriNational Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Alfred L BissingerInstitute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Tübingen, Germany.
Marc GrandadamArbovirus & Emerging viral diseases laboratory. Institut Pasteur du Laos, Vientiane, Laos.
Jonathan D AlpernDepartment of Travel and Tropical Medicine, HealthPartners; Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States.
Federico GobbiDepartment of Infectious /Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar, Verona, Italy.
Patricia SchlagenhaufUniversity of Zürich Centre for Travel Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Zürich, Switzerland.
Alexandre DuvignaudDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, CHU de Bordeaux & INSERM 1219, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.
Emilie JavelleLaveran Military Teaching Hospital, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, AP-HM, SSA, VITROME, Marseille, France.
Takato NakamotoDisease Control and Prevention Center, National Center for Global health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Spinello AntinoriDepartment of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences "L Sacco", University of Milan. Tropical Medicine Unit, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy.
Davidson H HamerDepartment of Global Health and Boston University School of Public Health and Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.

Funding

NCEZID CDC HHS U50 CK000189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eighteen cases of chikungunya virus infection in travellers returning from Myanmar were reported to the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network, its subnetwork EuroTravNet and TropNet in 2019, reflecting an ongoing local outbreak. This report reinforces the importance of travellers as sentinels of emerging arboviral outbreaks and highlights the importance of vigilance for imported cases, due to the potential for dissemination of the virus into areas with competent local vectors and conducive environmental conditions.

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TravelAdultAgedArthralgiaChikungunya FeverChikungunya virusDisease OutbreaksExanthemaFemaleFeverHumansMaleMiddle AgedMosquito VectorsMyanmarSentinel SurveillanceChikungunya virusOutbreaksurveillancetravel medicine

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PMCPMC6961262

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