Infection with Mayaro virus in a French traveller returning from the Amazon region, Brazil, January, 2010.
Mayaro virus (MAYV) disease is a mosquito-borne zoonosis endemic in humid forests of tropical South America. MAYV is closely related to other alphaviruses that produce a dengue-like illness accompanied by long-lasting arthralgia. A French tourist developed high-grade fever and severe joint manifestations following a 15-day trip in the Amazon basin, Brazil, and was diagnosed with MAYV infection in January 2010. This case is the first reported in a traveller returning from an endemic South American country to Europe.
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Travel clinics and Division of Tropical Medicine and Imported Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine and Tropical Diseases, Hopital St-Andre, University Hospital Centre, Bordeaux, France.
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D000524:Alphavirus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D018354:Alphavirus Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D001938:Brazil; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014195:Travel