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: Travel is important in the acquisition and dissemination of infection. We aimed to assess European surveillance data for travel-related illness to profile imported infections, track trends, identify risk groups, and assess the usefulness of pre-travel advice. Methods: We analysed...
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Schlagenhauf, P.; Weld, L.; Goorhuis, A.; Gautret, P.; Weber, R.; Sonnenburg, F. von; Lopez-Vélez, R.; Jensenius, M.; Cramer, J. P.; Field, V. K.; Odolini, S.; Gkrania-Klotsas, E.; Chappuis, F.; Malvy, D.; Genderen, P. J. J. van; Mockenhaupt, F.; Jauréguiberry, S.; Smith, C.; Beeching, N. J.; Ursing, J.; Parola, P.; Grobusch, M. P.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
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Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2015, 15, 1, pp 55-64
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
Background: In the last decades, there have been several natural disasters and global catastrophies with a steady increase in humanitarian relief work. This has resulted in increased research in the field of humanitarian aid, however the focus is mostly on the victims of the disasters and not on...
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Costa, M.; Oberholzer-Riss, M.; Hatz, C.; Steffen, R.; Puhan, M.; Schlagenhauf, P.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2015, 13, 6, pp 449-465
Two regions should be individualized in North African area. In the region of the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) and Egypt, due to climatic and socioeconomic conditions, the traveler is at risk of acquiring a number of infections common to other geographic areas. However, the...
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Gautret, P.; Mouffok, N.; Parola, P.
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Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK
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Infectious diseases: a geographic guide, 2011, pp 98-110
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
In this chapter, the following countries will be considered as part of Southern Europe (http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/index.html) as they share common characteristics from the epidemiological standpoint: countries of the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, most of the Balkan countries, Cyprus,...
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Castelli, F.; Buelli, F.; Giorgetti, P. F.
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Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK
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Infectious diseases: a geographic guide, 2011, pp 230-237
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
A large number of autochthonous cases of dengue fever (2237) and chikungunya fever (231) occurred in Europe (Italy, France, Croatia, Madeira) during the period covered by our analysis (2007-2012). In all dengue outbreaks, the circulating strain, identified by means of molecular analysis, was the...
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Tomasello, D.; Schlagenhauf, P.
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Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
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Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2013, 11, 5, pp 274-284
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