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 2
Frequencies of dengue serotypes that caused infections in German travelers according to year of travel and country of origin
| Country of origin | Dengue serotype (1996–1998) |
Dengue serotype (2002–2004) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D-1 | D-2 | D-3 | D-4 | Unknown | D-1 | D-2 | D-3 | D-4 | Unknown | |
| Thailand | 5 | 3 | 4 | – | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Indonesia | – | – | 2 | – | – | 3 | 1 | 3 | – | – |
| Indian subcontinent | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Rest of Asia | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 1 |
| The Americas and the Caribbean | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | 3 | 2 | – | 3 | |
| Africa | – | – | 1* | – | 1 | 2† | – | – | – | 1 |
*Seychelles.
†Angola and Kenya.
