dengue fever is a mosquito-borne disease which is not known to be endemic in iran. in october 2015, a 32-year-old iranian woman was admitted with acute unexplained high-grade fever, headache, pain, rash, diarrhea, leukopenia and elevated liver enzymes after returning from india. serological and molecular analysis for dengue virus (denv) infection revealed positive igm, negative igg and positive...

People returning from abroad frequently consult their general practitioners because of a febrile illness developing after arriving home. The cause of the fever may be immediately obvious when it is due to common conditions such as streptococcal tonsillitis or infectious mononucleosis. Sometimes, however, the doctor may be unable to make an immediate diagnosis and must consider the possibility t...

Data on mycoses known to be imported into the United Kingdom are sparse. Estimates on the prevalence of fungal infections have to be based on indirect and incomplete figures, obtained from isolation figures and reports of individual cases to co-ordinating centres such as the Mycological Reference Laboratory and the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of the Public Health Laboratory Service...