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Fatal Dengue Fever in a Traveler Returning from Togo to Germany

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: A previously healthy traveler of Togolese origin visiting friends and relatives presented with severe dengue complicated by acute liver failure. Despite intensive care management and listing for high-urgency liver transplantation, the patient succumbed to the disease. This case highlights the risk for life-threatening travel-related complications of dengue.

Source: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.25-0203

Authors: Matin Kohsar, Markus Haar, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Michael Ramharter, Bettina M. Buchholz, Susanne Krasemann, Christian Bernreuther, Daniel Cadar, Till Frederick Omansen, Dominic Wichmann, Lina-Hanne Maria Ko, Sabine Jordan

Institutions: University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, German Center for Infection Research

Language: English

Topic: Mosquito-borne diseases and control

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W7128472220

FWCI: 6.359

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