title: [The first confirmed imported case of yellow fever in China].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the epidemiological characteristics of the first confirmed imported case of yellow fever in China.
  
  
  METHODS
  This case was reported through the Infectious Disease Surveillance Program. Information on epidemiology and clinical manifestation of the case was collected through case interview and related medical records. Blood and saliva samples of the case were collected and tested by real-time PCR.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The patient was male, 32 years old, and suffered a sudden onset of fever without other symptoms, on March 8(th), 2016. The patient arrived in Beijing at midnight on March 10(th). Condition of the patient got progressively worsened, with both liver and renal failures, hepatic encephalopathy, multiple organ failures and DIC, finally died on March 16(th). Serum of the case was positive for yellow fever virus by real time PCR. The patient was bit by mosquitoes six days before the onset of fever in Luanda, Angola.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This report summarized related information on the first confirmed but imported case of yellow fever in China that was helpful to the management of other imported yellow fever cases in the future.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Infectious Disease and Endemic Disease Control, Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China.
authors.forename: X F
authors.initials: XF
authors.lastname: Dou
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zheng
authors.forename: Y N
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Lyu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: X Y
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Y W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: X H
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Pang
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Q Y
authors.initials: QY
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000068476:Beijing; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver; D008297:Male; D060888:Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction; D015004:Yellow Fever