Chikungunya Fever in Japan Imported from the Caribbean Islands

• Imai Kazuo

  Division of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, National Defense Medical College

• Nakayama Eri

  Department of Virology 1, National Institute of Infectious Diseases

• Maeda Takuya

  Division of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, National Defense Medical College

• Mikita Kei

  Division of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, National Defense Medical College

• Kobayashi Yukiko

  Department of Virology 1, National Institute of Infectious Diseases

• Mitarai Aoi

  Narita Airport Quarantine Station

• Honma Yasuko

  Narita Airport Quarantine Station

• Miyake Satoru

  Narita Airport Quarantine Station

• Kaku Koki

  National Defense Medical Research Institute, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Analysis and Response Officer

• Miyahira Yasushi

  Department of Global Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, National Defense Medical College

• Kawana Akihiko

  Division of Infectious Diseases and Pulmonary Medicine, National Defense Medical College

Abstract

A 53-year-old Japanese woman who was working as a volunteer in the Commonwealth of Dominica in the Caribbean islands presented with a high-grade fever and severe incapacitating generalized arthralgia. The Asian genotype of the chikungunya virus was confirmed using reverse transcription-PCR and serology, based on the presence of a specific neutralization titer and immunoglobulin M antibodies. She was diagnosed with post-chikungunya chronic arthritis based on persistence of her polyarthritis for 3 months and the presence of rheumatoid factor, immunoglobulin G-rheumatoid factor, and matrix metalloproteinase-3. Chikungunya virus should be considered as a causative pathogen in travelers returning from Caribbean islands. Clinicians should consider chikungunya fever in the differential diagnosis of patients who complain of chronic arthritis and have a history of travel to an endemic area.

Journal

• Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

  Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases 69 (2), 151-153, 2016

  National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases Editorial Committee

Keywords

• Chikungunya virus
• Caribbean
• Japan
• Chikungunya fever

Details

• CRID: 1390282681216589056
• NII Article ID: 130005138550
• NII Book ID: AA1132885X
• DOI: 10.7883/yoken.jjid.2015.063
• ISSN: 18842836
• ISSN: 13446304
• NDL BIB ID: 027211303
• PubMed: 26166501
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/027211303
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027211303
• Web Site: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/yoken/69/2/69_JJID.2015.063/_pdf
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2017010055
• Text Lang: en
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