Clinical features and laboratory findings of dengue fever in German travellers: A single-centre, retrospective analysis

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 39-44

  Tavakolipoor, Pulad ^a   Schmidt Chanasit, Jonas ^b,c   Burchard, Gerd Dieter ^a,b   Jordan, Sabine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^c German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arboviral infection; Arthropod borne disease; Dengue; Travel associated infection; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENGUE; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GERMAN (CITIZEN); GERMANY; HEADACHE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MYALGIA; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THAILAND; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRAVEL; BLOOD; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CHEMISTRY; DENGUE VIRUS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIVER; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; AGED; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DENGUE; DENGUE VIRUS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THAILAND; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960110177     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: 18730442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.01.007     Document Type: Article

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