COVID-19 and dengue co-infection in a returning traveller

J Travel Med. 2020 Sep 26;27(6):taaa114. doi: 10.1093/jtm/taaa114.

Abstract

In march 2020, a pandemic of respiratory infection due to the SARS-CoV2 is underway, dengue fever epidemics are at the same time present in many regions of the inter-equatorial zone. We report the first cases of covid19-dengue co-infection, which occurred in Mayotte, a French island in the Indian Ocean.

Keywords: COVID-19; Coronavirus; France; Mayotte; co-infection; Western Europe; pandemic; dengue fever; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; tropical diseases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • Coinfection / complications
  • Coinfection / diagnosis
  • Comoros
  • Coronavirus Infections / complications
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis*
  • Dengue / complications
  • Dengue / diagnosis*
  • France
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral / complications
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnosis*
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Switzerland
  • Travel*