Study on the Yellow Fever Virus Antigen in Human of Epidemic Areas from Tianjin port of China in 2014

Abstract

Yellow fever is an acute infectious disease that caused by yellow fever virus, and it’s one of the three infectious diseases of international health regulations. We tested people from epidemic areas of Tianjin port in 2014 to investigate the prevalence and distribution characteristics of yellow fever virus antigen. 192 samples were collected and the positive rate of yellow fever virus antigen was 12.5%. The positive rates among different countries, genders, ages, occupations and entry time were calculated and analyzed. The positive rate of workers engaged in labor was relatively high, and it had statistical significance compared to other occupations.