Longitudinal data examining travel-associated illness patterns are lacking. To address this need and determine trends and clusters in travel-related illness, we examined data for 2000-2010, prospectively collected for 42,223 ill travelers by 18 GeoSentinel sites. The most common destinations from...
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Leder, K.; Torresi, J.; Brownstein, J. S.; Wilson, M. E.; Keystone, J. S.; Barnett, E.; Schwartz, E.; Schlagenhauf, P.; Wilder-Smith, A.; Castelli, F.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Freedman, D. O.; Cheng, A. C.
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National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2013, 19, 7, pp 1049-1057
Background. Older individuals represent a substantial proportion of international travelers. Because of physiological changes and the increased probability of underlying medical conditions, older travelers might be at higher risk for at least some travel-associated diseases. Methods. With the aim...
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Gautret, P.; Gaudart, J.; Leder, K.; Schwartz, E.; Castelli, F.; Lim PohLian; Murphy, H.; Keystone, J.; Cramer, J.; Shaw, M.; Boddaert, J.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Parola, P.
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Wiley-Blackwell, Boston, USA
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2012, 19, 3, pp 169-177
Background: International travel carries the risk of imported diseases, which are an increasingly significant public health problem. There is little guidance about which variables should be collected by surveillance systems for strategy-based surveillance. Methods: Surveillance forms for dengue, ...
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Neave, P. E.; Heywood, A. E.; Gibney, K. B.; Leder, K.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2016, 14, 4, pp 350-359
Background: Vaccination is a safe and effective public health intervention that not only protects individual travellers from vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs), but prevents them from becoming a source of disease in their destination and on their return. Obtaining an accurate vaccination history...
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Turner, D. P.; McGuinness, S. L.; Cohen, J.; Waring, L. J.; Leder, K.
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Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2017, 24, 3, pp tax011
Background: Non-immune international travellers are at risk of acquiring hepatitis A. Although hepatitis A vaccination is recommended for unvaccinated travellers to high or intermediate hepatitis A virus endemicity, compliance with this recommendation is not universal. The main objective was to...
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Balogun, O.; Brown, A.; Angelo, K. M.; Hochberg, N. S.; Barnett, E. D.; Nicolini, L. A.; Asgeirsson, H.; Grobusch, M. P.; Leder, K.; Salvador, F.; Chen Lin; Odolini, S.; Díaz-Menéndez, M.; Gobbi, F.; Connor, B. A.; Libman, M.; Hamer, D. H.
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Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2022, 29, 2,
Background. Data comparing returned travelers and immigrants/refugees managed in a hospital setting is lacking. Methods. We prospectively collected data on 1,106 patients with an illness likely acquired overseas who presented to two hospital-based Australian infectious diseases units over a 6-year...
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O'Brien, D. P.; Leder, K.; Matchett, E.; Brown, G. V.; Torresi, J.
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Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2006, 13, 3, pp 145-152
Although the costs of dengue illness to patients and households have been extensively studied in endemic populations, international travelers have not been the focus of costing studies. As globalization and human travel activities intensify, travelers are increasingly at risk for emerging and...
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Tozan, Y.; Headley, T. Y.; Sewe, M. O.; Schwartz, E.; Shemesh, T.; Cramer, J. P.; Eberhardt, K. A.; Ramharter, M.; Harrison, N.; Leder, K.; Angheben, A.; Hatz, C.; Neumayr, A.; Chen LinHwei; Pijper, C. A. de; Grobusch, M. P.; Wilder-Smith, A.
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American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Deerfield, USA
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American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2019, 100, 6, pp 1525-1533
Background: Analysis of a large cohort of business travelers will help clinicians focus on frequent and serious illnesses. We aimed to describe travel-related health problems in business travelers. Method. GeoSentinel Surveillance Network consists of 64 travel and tropical medicine clinics in 29...
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Chen, L. H.; Leder, K.; Barbre, K. A.; Schlagenhauf, P.; Libman, M.; Keystone, J.; Mendelson, M.; Gautret, P.; Schwartz, E.; Shaw, M.; MacDonald, S.; McCarthy, A.; Connor, B. A.; Esposito, D. H.; Hamer, D.; Wilson, M. E.
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Oxford University Press, Cary, USA
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Journal of Travel Medicine, 2018, 25, 1, pp tax097
Background. No systematic studies exist on sex and gender differences across a broad range of travel-associated diseases. Methods. Travel and tropical medicine GeoSentinel clinics worldwide contributed prospective, standardized data on 58,908 patients with travel-associated illness to a central...
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Schlagenhauf, P.; Chen, L. H.; Wilson, M. E.; Freedman, D. O.; Tcheng, D.; Schwartz, E.; Pandey, P.; Weber, R.; Nadal, D.; Berger, C.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Keystone, J.; Leder, K.
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA
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Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2010, 50, 6, pp 826-832
Background: Respiratory infections including influenza are a common cause of acute short-term morbidity in travellers and yet the risk of these infections is poorly defined. Objectives To estimate the incidence density of and risk factors for acute respiratory infections (ARIs) and influenza in...
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Ratnam, I.; Black, J.; Leder, K.; Biggs, B. A.; Gordon, I.; Matchett, E.; Padiglione, A.; Woolley, I.; Karapanagiotidis, T.; Gherardin, T.; Demont, C.; Luxemburger, C.; Torresi, J.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
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Journal of Clinical Virology, 2013, 57, 1, pp 54-58