Sékéné Badiaga, Karine Barrau, Philippe Brouqui, Jacques Durant, Denis Malvy, François Janbon, Eric Bonnet, Annick Bosseray, Albert Sotto, Dominique Peyramont, Serge Dydymski, Celine Cazorla, Hervé Tolou, Jean Paul Durant, Jean Delmont
Dengue fever (DF) is a mosquito-transmitted acute disease caused by any of four dengue flavivirus serotypes (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, and DEN-4) which is becoming a major public health problem in intertropical areas.1 DF is increasingly observed in febrile travelers returning from tropical areas,2 especially those returning from the Caribbean islands and Southeast Asia, but it is rarely diagnosed in travelers returning from Africa.3-8 Diagnosis is often serologic, and in most cases is not confirmed; virus isolation remains exceptional...
2003: Journal of Travel Medicine