Background: Europeans represent the majority of international travellers and clinicians encountering returned patients have an essential role in recognizing, and communicating travel-associated public health risks. Methods: To investigate the morbidity of travel associated infectious diseases in...
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Field, V.; Gautret, P.; Schlagenhauf, P.; Burchard, G. D.; Caumes, E.; Jensenius, M.; Castelli, F.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.; Weld, L.; Lopez-Velez, R.; Vries, P. de; Sonnenburg, F. von; Loutan, L.; Parola, P.
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BioMed Central Ltd, London, UK
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2010, 10, 330, pp (17 November 2010)
Background: Limited data exist on infectious diseases imported to various locations in Europe, particularly after travel within the continent. Methods: To investigate travel-related disease relevant to Europe that is potentially preventable through pre-travel intervention, we analyzed the...
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Warne, B.; Weld, L. H.; Cramer, J. P.; Field, V. K.; Grobusch, M. P.; Caumes, E.; Jensenius, M.; Gautret, P.; Schlagenhauf, P.; Castelli, F.; Lalloo, D. G.; Ursing, J.; Chappuis, F.; Sonnenburg, F. von; López-Vélez, R.; Rapp, C.; Smith, K. C.; Parola, P.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.
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Wiley-Blackwell, Boston, USA
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2014, 21, 4, pp 248-254
Rationale for review: Chikungunya outbreaks continue to occur, with changing epidemiology. Awareness about chikungunya is low both among the at-risk travellers and healthcare professionals, which can result in underdiagnosis and underreporting. This review aims to improve awareness among healthcare ...
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Simon, F.; Caumes, E.; Jelinek, T.; Lopez-Velez, R.; Steffen, R.; Chen, L. H.
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Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2023, 30, 2,
The aim of this study was to investigate travel-associated morbidity in European travellers in 2009 in comparison with 2008, with a particular emphasis on emerging infectious diseases with the potential for introduction into Europe. Diagnoses with demographic, clinical and travel-related predictors ...
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Odolini, S.; Parola, P.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.; Caumes, E.; Schlagenhauf, P.; López-Vélez, R.; Burchard, G. D.; Santos-O'Connor, F.; Weld, L.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Field, V.; Vries, P. de; Jensenius, M.; Loutan, L.; Castelli, F.
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Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK
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Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2012, 18, 5, pp 468-474
We report two yellow fever cases in unvaccinated French travellers in Brazil in January and March 2018, respectively; one exposed during an excursion in Minas Gerais and the other in Ilha Grande. Both presented with fever, hepatitis, thrombocytopenia and leucopenia. Yellow fever diagnosis was based ...
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Oliosi, E.; Corcos, C. S.; Barroso, P. F.; Bleibtreu, A.; Grard, G.; Filippis, B. A. M. de; Caumes, E.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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Eurosurveillance, 2018, 23, 21, pp 1800240
This article briefly describes the 10 travel-related cases of yellow fever (including 4 deaths) that have been reported in international travellers returning from Brazil since January 2018. None of the 10 travellers had received yellow fever vaccination. Five of the 10 cases were reported by ProMED ...
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Hamer, D. H.; Angelo, K.; Caumes, E.; Genderen, P. J. J. van; Florescu, S. A.; Popescu, C. P.; Perret, C.; McBride, A.; Checkley, A.; Ryan, J.; Cetron, M.; Schlagenhauf, P.
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Epidemiology Program Office, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta , USA
Citation
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 2018, 67, 11, pp 340-341
To investigate trends in travel-associated morbidity with particular emphasis on emerging infections with the potential for introduction into Europe, diagnoses of 7,408 returning travellers presenting to 16 EuroTravNet sites in 2010 were compared with 2008 and 2009. A significant increase in...
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Gautret, P.; Cramer, J. P.; Field, V.; Caumes, E.; Jensenius, M.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.; Vries, P. J. de; Grobusch, M. P.; Lopez-Velez, R.; Castelli, F.; Schlagenhauf, P.; Askling, H. H.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Lalloo, D. G.; Loutan, L.; Rapp, C.; Basto, F.; O'Connor, F. S.; Weld, L.; Parola, P.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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Eurosurveillance, 2012, 17, 26, pp 16-26
We evaluated EuroTravNet (a GeoSentinel subnetwork) data from June 2013 to May 2016 on 508 ill travellers returning from Brazil, to inform a risk analysis for Europeans visiting the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil. Few dengue fever cases (n=3) and no cases of chikungunya were documented ...
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Gautret, P.; Mockenhaupt, F.; Grobusch, M. P.; Rothe, C.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Genderen, P. J. van; Chappuis, F.; Asgeirsson, H.; Caumes, E.; Bottieau, E.; Malvy, D.; Lopez-Vélez, R.; Jensenius, M.; Larsen, C. S.; Castelli, F.; Rapp, C.; Field, V.; Molina, I.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.; Florescu, S.; Lalloo, D.; Schlagenhauf, P.
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
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Eurosurveillance, 2016, 21, 27, pp 30278
Background: Although between 8 and 19% of travelers consult a doctor after returning from the tropics, the full spectrum of health complaints is unknown. Methods: We analyzed the relative frequency of travel-associated health complaints in all travelers (immigrants returning from visiting their...
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Ansart, S.; Perez, L.; Vergely, O.; Danis, M.; Bricaire, F.; Caumes, E.
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B. C. Decker Inc., Hamilton, Canada
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2005, 12, 6, pp 312-318
Background: Dengue virus (DENV), Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), and Zika virus (ZIKV) infections are rapidly expanding across countries and are being diagnosed in returned travellers who represent epidemiological sentinels. The French Territories of America (FTA) such as Guadeloupe and Martinique see...
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Vasquez, V.; Haddad, E.; Perignon, A.; Jaureguiberry, S.; Brichler, S.; Leparc-Goffart, I.; Caumes, E.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018, 72, pp 34-39