WHO Collaborating Center for clinical care, diagnosis, response and training on Highly Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy.
Euro Surveill. 2010 Feb 18;15(7):19487.
In October 2009, a traveller returning from Africa to Italy was hospitalised with symptoms suggestive of a haemorrhagic fever of unknown origin. The patient was immediately placed in a special biocontainment unit until laboratory investigations confirmed the infection to be caused by a dengue serotype 3 virus. This case reasserts the importance of returning travellers as sentinels of unknown outbreaks occurring in other countries, and highlights how the initial symptoms of dengue fever resemble those of other haemorrhagic fevers, hence the importance of prompt isolation of patients until a final diagnosis is reached.
2009 年 10 月，一名从非洲返回意大利的旅行者因疑似不明来源的出血热症状住院。该患者立即被安置在一个特殊的生物隔离单元中，直到实验室检查确认感染是由登革热血清型 3 病毒引起的。该病例再次强调了归国旅行者作为其他国家未知疫情的哨点的重要性，并突出表明登革热的初始症状类似于其他出血热，因此必须迅速隔离患者，直到得出最终诊断。
