First case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902

The first case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902 was reported in March 1998. The yellow fever virus genome was detected in postmortem liver biopsies by seminested polymerase chain reaction. Sequence analysis showed that this strain was most closely related to strains from Brazil and Ecuado...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Emerging infectious diseases 1999-05, Vol.5 (3), p.429-432
Hauptverfasser:	Heraud, J M, Hommel, D, Hulin, A, Deubel, V, Poveda, J D, Sarthou, J L, Talarmin, A
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	DNA, Viral DNA, Viral - analysis Fatal Outcome Female French Guiana French Guiana - epidemiology Humans Life Sciences Liver Liver - virology Microbiology and Parasitology Phylogeny Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Sequence Analysis, DNA Virology Yellow Fever Yellow Fever - epidemiology Yellow Fever - virology Yellow fever virus Yellow fever virus - genetics Yellow fever virus - isolation & purification
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Zusammenfassung:	The first case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902 was reported in March 1998. The yellow fever virus genome was detected in postmortem liver biopsies by seminested polymerase chain reaction. Sequence analysis showed that this strain was most closely related to strains from Brazil and Ecuador.
ISSN:	1080-6040 1080-6059
DOI:	10.3201/eid0503.990314