Shedding of Yellow Fever Virus From an Imported Case in the Netherlands After Travel to Brazil

My V T Phan; Mariana Mendonca Melo; Els van Nood; Georgina Aron; Jolanda J C Kreeft-Voermans; Marion P G Koopmans; Chantal Reusken; Corine H GeurtsvanKessel; Matthew Cotten

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa020

Shedding of Yellow Fever Virus From an Imported Case in the Netherlands After Travel to Brazil

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jan 13;7(2):ofaa020. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa020. eCollection 2020 Feb.

Authors

My V T Phan¹, Mariana Mendonca Melo², Els van Nood², Georgina Aron¹, Jolanda J C Kreeft-Voermans¹, Marion P G Koopmans¹, Chantal Reusken¹, Corine H GeurtsvanKessel¹, Matthew Cotten¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Viroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

We report yellow fever infection in a Dutch traveler returning from Brazil. Yellow fever virus (YFV) was identified in serum and urine samples over a period of 1 month. Yellow fever virus genome sequences from the patient clustered with recent Brazilian YFV and showed with limited nucleotide changes during the resolving infection.

Keywords: genomics; vaccination; yellow fever virus.