title: Chikungunya infection in a French traveller returning from the Maldives, October, 2009.
abstract: In the last years, cases of chikungunya fever have been reported in international travellers returning from the Indian Ocean region. The cases have been linked to the re-emergence of chikungunya fever on Indian Ocean islands in 2006. We describe the first case of chikungunya fever in a French traveller returning from Male, an island of the Maldives islands, confirming the permanence of virus circulation by the end of 2009.
authors.affiliation: Travel Clinics and Unit for Tropical Medicine and Imported Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Hôpital St-André, University Hospital Centre, Bordeaux, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Receveur
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ezzedine
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pistone
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malvy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018354:Alphavirus Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D002646:Chikungunya virus; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007195:Indian Ocean Islands; D008297:Male; D014195:Travel