Volume 18, Number 4—April 2012
Dispatch
Surveillance for West Nile, Dengue, and Chikungunya Virus Infections, Veneto Region, Italy, 2010
Federico Gobbi
, Luisa Barzon, Gioia Capelli, Andrea Angheben, Monia Pacenti, Giuseppina Napoletano, Cinzia Piovesan, Fabrizio Montarsi, Simone Martini, Roberto Rigoli, Anna M. Cattelan, Roberto Rinaldi, Mario Conforto, Francesca Russo, Giorgio Palù, Zeno Bisoffi, and the Veneto Summer Fever Study Group
, Luisa Barzon, Gioia Capelli, Andrea Angheben, Monia Pacenti, Giuseppina Napoletano, Cinzia Piovesan, Fabrizio Montarsi, Simone Martini, Roberto Rigoli, Anna M. Cattelan, Roberto Rinaldi, Mario Conforto, Francesca Russo, Giorgio Palù, Zeno Bisoffi, and the Veneto Summer Fever Study GroupTable A1
Description of 14 dengue cases and 1 chikungunya case, Veneto Region, Italy, 2010*
| Infection/patient sex/age, y | Country of exposure | Time from symptom onset to diagnosis, d | Symptoms and signs |
Laboratory results |
Serotype | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fever | Head ache | Joint pain | Muscle pain | Rash | Vomiting | Lymphadenopathy | Rapid test | IgG | IgM | PCR | ||||
| Dengue | ||||||||||||||
| F/24 | Bali | 1 | + | – | + | + | – | – | – | + | – | + | + | 3 |
| M/34 | India | 4 | + | + | + | + | + | + | – | + | + | + | + | |
| M/38 | French Guyana | NA | + | + | + | + | + | – | – | ND | + | + | + | |
| M/42 | Cote d’Ivoire | 3 | + | – | + | – | – | – | – | + | – | – | + | 3 |
| M/43 | Vietnam | 5 | + | + | + | – | + | – | – | + | – | + | + | 2 |
| F/43 | Cambodia | 3 | + | + | + | + | – | – | + | + | – | – | + | 2 |
| F/31 | Caribbean | 10 | + | + | – | – | + | – | – | + | + | + | + | 1 |
| M/35 | Lao People’s Democratic Republic | 4 | + | + | + | + | + | – | – | + | – | + | + | 2 |
| M/40 | Bangladesh | 13 | + | – | – | – | – | + | – | – | + | + | – | |
| F/51 | India | 7 | + | + | – | – | – | – | – | + | + | + | – | |
| M/44 | Thailand | 7 | + | + | + | – | – | – | – | + | + | + | – | |
| F/17 | Martinica | 6 | + | + | + | + | – | – | – | – | + | + | – | |
| M/36 | Thailand | 20 | + | + | – | – | + | – | – | – | – | + | – | |
| M/25 | India | NA | + | – | – | – | – | – | + | – | + | + | ||
| Chikungunya, F/58 | Bali | NA | + | – | + | + | + | – | – | ND | + | + | – | |
*+, positive; –, negative; NA, not applicable; ND, not done.
1Additional members of the Veneto Summer Fever Study Group who contributed data: Margherita Cattai, Ercole Concia, Riccardo Cusinato, Roberto Ferretto, Ermenegildo Francavilla, Elisa Franchin, Giampietro Pellizzer, Francesca Pozza, Enzo Raise, Pierangelo Rovere, Piergiorgio Scotton, and Filippo Viviano.
