摘要：Authors C. Ficko 1 * P.L. Conan 1 C. Bigaillon 2 S. Duron 3 C. Rapp 1 1 Service de maladies infectieuses et tropicales, hôpital d’instruction des armées Bégin, 69 avenue de Paris, 94160 Saint-Mandé, France 2 Biologie médicale, hôpital d’instruction des armées Bégin, 69 avenue de Paris, 94160 Saint-Mandé, France 3 Centre d’épidémiologie et de santé publique des armées, Marseille, France * Correspondance Key words: vaccine, tropics, hepatitis A, Central African Republic DOI : 10.1684/mst.2015.0511 Page(s) : 363-4 Published in: 2015 In stays in tropical countries, the French military, and travelers in general, are exposed to diseases transmitted by the fecal-oral route, some of which are vaccine-preventable. Here we report a 42-yer-old soldier with hepatitis A, which first appeared on his return from a military operation in the Central African Republic. Despite its excellent immunogenicity and a duration of seroprotection extending beyond 20 years in the vast majority of cases, the hepatitis A vaccine can fail. This reminds us of the importance of combining vaccine and non-vaccine prevention in tropical countries, especially in precarious living conditions.
关键词：vaccine; tropics; hepatitis A; Central African Republic
