Volume 11, Number 3—March 2005
Dispatch
Fever Screening at Airports and Imported Dengue
Pei-Yun Shu*, Li-Jung Chien*, Shu-Fen Chang*, Chien-Ling Su*, Yu-Chung Kuo*, Tsai-Ling Liao*, Mei-Shang Ho†, Ting-Hsiang Lin*, and Jyh-Hsiung Huang*
Table 2
Countries of origin and dengue virus serotype of imported dengue cases in Taiwan, July 2003–June 2004
| Country of origin | No. imported cases |
Serotype* |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Fever screening | D-1 | D-2 | D-3 | D-4 | Unknown | |
| Vietnam | 21 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| Indonesia | 15 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| The Philippines | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| Thailand | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| India | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Malaysia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Myanmar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Cambodia | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Sri Lanka | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 73 | 40 | 12 | 28 | 6 | 12 | 15 |
*Dengue virus serotypes were identified by real time 1-step polymerase chain reaction, virus isolation, or both, for all imported cases.
