First case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902.

Jean-Michel Heraud (1) , D. Hommel (2) , A. Hulin (2) , V. Deubel (3) , J. D. Poveda (3) , J. L. Sarthou (1) , Antoine Talarmin (1)

1 Institut Pasteur de la Guyane
2 Service de réanimation
3 IP - Institut Pasteur [Paris]

The first case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902 was reported in March 1998. The yellow fever virus genome was detected in postmortem liver biopsies by seminested polymerase chain reaction. Sequence analysis showed that this strain was most closely related to strains from Brazil and Ecuador.

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology; Virology

Jean-Michel Heraud, D. Hommel, A. Hulin, V. Deubel, J. D. Poveda, et al.. First case of yellow fever in French Guiana since 1902.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 1999, 5 (3), pp.429-32. ⟨10.3201/eid0503.990314⟩. ⟨pasteur-00607936⟩