title: Ross River virus infection in a traveller returning from northern Australia.
abstract: Ross River virus is an arthropod-borne alphavirus (family Togaviridae) causing epidemic polyarthritis in the Australia-Pacific region. The infection causes substantial morbidity due to long-lasting arthralgia. Despite being the most common arboviral infection in Australia, reports in travellers are scarce. Here, we describe the disease in a German traveller who was not aware of the prevalence of this infection in his holiday destination, the Northern Territory and Queensland, Australia. The patient had neither fever nor rash, but presented with chills, watery diarrhoea and severe, prolonged arthritis.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. dtappe@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tappe
authors.forename: Jonas
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schmidt-Chanasit
authors.forename: Angelika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ries
authors.forename: Uwe
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ziegler
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: August
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stich
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018354:Alphavirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018771:Arthralgia / Q000821:virology; D001315:Australia; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012398:Ross River virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014195:Travel