Public health response to two imported, epidemiologically related cases of Lassa fever in the Netherlands (ex Sierra Leone), November 2019
Overbosch, Femke; de Boer, Mark; Veldkamp, Karin Ellen; Ellerbroek, Pauline; Bleeker-Rovers, Chantal P.; Goorhuis, Bram; van Vugt, Michele; Van Der Eijk, Annemiek; Leenstra, Tjalling; Khargi, Martin; Ros, Jeanette; Brandwagt, Diederik; Haverkate, Manon; Swaan, Corien; Reusken, Chantal; Timen, Aura; Koopmans, Marion; van Dissel, Jaap
(2020) Eurosurveillance, volume 25, issue 15, pp. 6 - 10
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Abstract
On 20 November 2019, Lassa fever was diagnosed in a physician repatriated from Sierra Leone to the Netherlands. A second physician with suspected Lassa fever, repatriated a few days later from the same healthcare facility, was confirmed infected with Lassa virus on 21 November. Comprehensive contact monitoring involving high- and
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low-risk contacts proved to be feasible and follow-up of the contacts did not reveal any case of secondary transmission in the Netherlands.
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Keywords: Antiviral Agents/therapeutic use, Contact Tracing, Cross Infection, Female, Health Personnel, Humans, Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional, Lassa Fever/diagnosis, Lassa virus/genetics, Male, Netherlands, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sierra Leone, Travel, Whole Genome Sequencing, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology, Virology, Journal Article
ISSN: 1025-496X
Publisher: Centre Europeen pour la Surveillance Epidemiologique du SIDA
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