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Febrile Rash: An Early Diagnostic Clue to Infectious Illness in Travelers Returning from Thailand.

Hisham Ahmed Imad, Anastasia Putri, Ratchata Charoenwisedsil, Sakarn Charoensakulchai, Eric Caumes

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Article in Reports (MDPI), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Hisham Ahmed ImadThai Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0003-4812-6334
Anastasia PutriThai Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
Ratchata CharoenwisedsilThai Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.ORCID 0009-0003-6348-7725
Sakarn CharoensakulchaiThai Travel Clinic, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0001-8991-0163
Eric CaumesCentre de Diagnostic et de Thérapeutique, Hotel Dieu Hôpital, 75004 Paris, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The eruption of a rash along with spiking fever in travelers returning from the tropics may be suspicious of arboviral diseases, and isolation prevent further transmission in non-endemic countries. The case presented here was seen at the Fever Clinic at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Bangkok, Thailand. The presenting complaints were fever, headache, myalgia, and a distinctive erythematous blanching rash. Despite a negative dengue NS1 test on the initial day, anti-dengue IgM and IgG were detectable on day five of illness. Dengue, a leading cause of traveler's fever with rash, is of particular concern, especially during outbreaks like the one in Thailand in 2023, when the number of cases exceeded one hundred thousand over a nine-month period. The influx of 28 million travelers in 2023, many with naive immunity to many arboviruses, raises fear of transmission to temperate regions, including to countries like France, where

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denguefebrile rashFranceThailand

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PMID40729156
PMCPMC12225320

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