Imported Dengue Fever in Milan, Italy: A Seven-Year Retrospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dengue fever is an arboviral infection transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes that has recently become a public health concern also in Europe, causing many outbreaks of autochthonous cases.

Methods

We retrospectively retrieved dengue cases in returning travelers from tropical areas diagnosed at the Luigi Sacco Hospital between January 2018 and December 2024. All patients with positive serology for DENV (IgM alone or IgM and IgG or neutralizing antibodies detection) and/or positive real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for DENV RNA on plasma and urine were considered. Analyses were descriptive.

Results

This analysis included 159 travelers with confirmed (n = 138; 86.8%) or probable (n = 21; 13.2%) dengue fever. The median age was 38 year

SUBMITTER: Pieruzzi ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12452528 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature