A Case of Japanese Encephalitis with a Fatal Outcome in an Australian Who Traveled from Bali in 2019.

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Pyke, Alyssa T
Choong, Keat
Moore, Frederick
Schlebusch, SanmariƩ
Taylor, Carmel
Hewitson, Glen
McMahon, Jamie
Nair, Neelima
Moore, Peter
Finger, Mitchell
Burtonclay, Peter
Wheatley, Sarah
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A severe case of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) infection, resulting in fatality, occurred in an unvaccinated Australian male traveler from Bali, Indonesia, in 2019. During hospitalisation in Australia, patient cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) yielded JEV-specific IgM antibodies and RNA, and an isolate of the virus. Ongoing transmission of JEV in Bali underscores this pathogen as a public health risk and the importance of appropriate health, vaccination and mosquito avoidance advice to prospective travelers to the region.

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Emergency Medicine Australasia

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Ā© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Clinical sciences

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Australia

Bali

CSF

Japanese encephalitis

Japanese encephalitis virus

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Pyke, AT; Choong, K; Moore, F; Schlebusch, S; Taylor, C; Hewitson, G; McMahon, J; Nair, N; Moore, P; Finger, M; Burtonclay, P; Wheatley, S, A Case of Japanese Encephalitis with a Fatal Outcome in an Australian Who Traveled from Bali in 2019, Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2020, 5 (3), pp. 133-133

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