Dengue virus serotype 4 and chikungunya virus coinfection in a traveller returning from Luanda, Angola, January 2014

Euro Surveill. 2014 Mar 13;19(10):20730. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.es2014.19.10.20730.

Abstract

A concurrent dengue virus serotype 4 and chikungunya virus infection was detected in a woman in her early 50s returning to Portugal from Luanda, Angola, in January 2014. The clinical, laboratory and molecular findings, involving phylogenetic analyses of partial viral genomic sequences amplified by RT-PCR, are described. Although the circulation of both dengue and chikungunya viruses in Angola has been previously reported, to our knowledge this is the first time coinfection with both viruses has been detected there.

MeSH terms

  • Alphavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Alphavirus Infections / virology
  • Angola
  • Chikungunya Fever
  • Chikungunya virus / isolation & purification*
  • Coinfection*
  • Dengue / diagnosis*
  • Dengue / virology
  • Dengue Virus / genetics
  • Dengue Virus / isolation & purification*
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Female
  • Genome, Viral / genetics
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Phylogeny
  • Portugal
  • Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Sequence Analysis
  • Travel*