Zika virus infection in a traveller returning to Europe from Brazil, March 2015

Euro Surveill. 2015 Jun 11;20(23):21153. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.23.21153.

Abstract

We report a case of laboratory-confirmed Zika virus infection imported into Europe from the Americas. The patient developed fever, rash, and oedema of hands and feet after returning to Italy from Brazil in late March 2015. The case highlights that, together with chikungunya virus and dengue virus, three major arboviruses are now co-circulating in Brazil. These arboviruses represent a burden for the healthcare systems in Brazil and other countries where competent mosquito vectors are present.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Viral / blood
  • Brazil
  • Exanthema / virology
  • Fever / virology
  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin G / blood
  • Immunoglobulin M / blood
  • Italy
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • RNA, Viral / blood
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Travel
  • Zika Virus / genetics
  • Zika Virus / immunology
  • Zika Virus / isolation & purification*
  • Zika Virus Infection* / blood
  • Zika Virus Infection* / diagnosis
  • Zika Virus Infection* / virology

Substances

  • Antibodies, Viral
  • Immunoglobulin G
  • Immunoglobulin M
  • RNA, Viral