We report yellow fever infection in a Dutch traveler returning from Brazil. Yellow fever virus (YFV) was identified in serum and urine samples over a period of 1 month. Yellow fever virus genome sequences from the patient clustered with recent Brazilian YFV and showed with limited nucleotide changes during the resolving infection.

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doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa020, hdl.handle.net/1765/126509
Open Forum Infectious Diseases
Department of Virology

Phan, M.V.T. (My V.T.), Melo, M.M. (Mariana Mendonca), van Nood, E., Aron, G., Kreeft-Voermans, J.J.C. (Jolanda J.C.), Koopmans, M., D.V.M., … Cotten, M. (Matthew). (2020). Shedding of yellow fever virus from an imported case in the Netherlands after travel to Brazil. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 7(2). doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa020