Dengue Virus Type 3 Infection in Traveler Returning from West Africa

摘要

To the Editor: GeoSentinel, the global surveillance program of the International Society of Travel Medi-cine, recently reported that returning travelers may serve as sentinels for local outbreaks of dengue fever in tropical areas to which it is endemic (1). We investigated a case of dengue virus (DENV) type 3 (DENV-3) infec-tion in a traveler returning to France from West Africa, which provided evi-dence for DENV-3 circulation in C.te d'Ivoire