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First two autochthonous dengue virus infections in metropolitan France, September 2010.
G La Ruche
1 ,
Y Souarès ,
A Armengaud ,
F Peloux-Petiot ,
P Delaunay ,
P Desprès ,
A Lenglet ,
F Jourdain ,
I Leparc-Goffart ,
F Charlet ,
L Ollier ,
K Mantey ,
T Mollet ,
J P Fournier ,
R Torrents ,
K Leitmeyer ,
P Hilairet ,
H Zeller ,
W Van Bortel ,
D Dejour-Salamanca ,
M Grandadam ,
M Gastellu-Etchegorry
Sep 30 2010
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Abstract
In September 2010, two cases of autochthonous dengue fever were diagnosed in metropolitan France for the first time. The cases occurring in Nice, southeast France, where Aedes albopictus is established, are evidence of dengue virus circulation in this area. This local transmission of dengue calls for further enhanced surveillance, active case finding and vector control measures to reduce the spread of the virus and the risk of an epidemic.