Volume 11, Number 5—May 2005
THEME ISSUE
Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
Dengue Antibody Prevalence in German Travelers
Ole Wichmann*
, Annekathrin Lauschke*, Christina Frank†, Pei-Yun Shu‡, Matthias Niedrig†, Jyh-Hsiung Huang‡, Klaus Stark†, and Tomas Jelinek*
, Annekathrin Lauschke*, Christina Frank†, Pei-Yun Shu‡, Matthias Niedrig†, Jyh-Hsiung Huang‡, Klaus Stark†, and Tomas Jelinek*Table 1
Prevalence of anti-dengue antibodies in 2,255 patients according to travel destination and time*
| Years | No. acute infections/total no. travelers (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast Asia and Indian subcontinent | Sub-Saharan Africa | Latin America and the Caribbean | |
| 1996–1998 | 22/491 (4.5) | 2/309 (0.6) | 4/271 (1.5) |
| 2002–2004 | 25/529 (4.7) | 3/376 (0.8) | 8/279 (2.9) |
| Total | 47/1,020 (4.6) | 5/685 (0.7) | 12/550 (2.2) |
*Four patients are not included in this analysis since they traveled to >1 continent.
